I searched and havent found anyone asking this. what is your personal story of becoming a communist? I will share mine. but im going to try not to reveal any personal info and id suggest anyone else do that too. I want to keep this short but…

I became a leftist in late 2019 early 2020. before this i would say i was a “centrist” or just non political, it just seemed like a way to argue with people. In short, the corona virus was what lead me to being radicalized. since we weren’t allowed to leave our homes, i spent time on obscure apps meeting many people around the globe, most of which were from the third and second world, a surprising many of which were communists. one asked if im a marxist, and so we talked about it. they ended up telling me the basic concepts of surplus value and how businesses must care only about profit, how universities and hospitals are run as businesses in places like america, and how workers are screwed over by the bosses despite doing all the work, and that all of this is what socialism is trying to fix. after some internet research I found the marxist internet archive, and i read lots of short readings, a few books, and watched lots of youtube videos by people such as non compete and Hakim, and now here I am today cursed with knowledge that I am exploited by my boss. sadly i’ve yet to do any real organizing. but I might get there some day.

just to be clear, i’ve left out many details of stuff that helped me become a marxist to keep it short. it was a long process that is still happening too

  • DankZedong A
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    3 years ago

    When I learned about communism in history class I always thought it sounded nice, but due to everyone telling me it only works in theory, I started parroting this. I became an enlightened centrist for a while but the centrist party always turned out to be more right than what they promised, essentially fucking me over multiple times. So I became more left wing, but more sucdem tbh.

    Then I didn’t really care for politics for a while as I did not saw the point.

    Then covid happened and I saw how workers were treated in the midst of a catastrophic event and it bothered me. So I started looking into workers’ rights more and thus I stumbled upon the works of my boy K Marx. And things started to click. So I started watching more videos and reading more theory on communism and I started seeing the lies that were told about it. Then I started working as a social worker and seeing how the poorest in our society are treated just straight up radicalized me.

    • DankZedong A
      13·
      3 years ago

      Bonus points for all the companies making record profits year after year while normal people just got worse. It didn’t make sense. Add to that the destruction of our planet and no promise of ever being able to retire or to buy a house, while people made so much money, was just an insult for me. It didn’t make sense that I was number 3000 on a waiting list for ONE FUCKING HOUSE. Everything just got worse for the common people but I kept reading about the rich getting richer. That does something to a mf, I tell you.