Hello, baby Marxist here!
Personally mine was reading.
When I was a liberal I loathed reading and found it hard to even read a short article. I rarely researched everything I heard, and as a teenager, I was like every other liberal, getting my news off social media.
Now I make sure to research everything, however, getting into theory is a bit hard. Most of the information I learned about communism was through fellow comrades, because like before, I got my information from other people’s comments.
Currently I’m restoring my motivation for reading by starting small. Reading long comments from comrades helped a lot. I’ve now moved on to reading information from leftist sources without effort, and I’m starting on reading the communist manifesto.
Enough about me, what were your side effects?
Oh god… Where do I even begin. I guess I’ll go here. A tendency to perpetuate unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy theories. eg. The Ancient Egyptians had electricity and radios, or in North Korea, you vote in front of an inspector, and get “disappeared”, if you vote outside of this “royal” Kim family.
and the can’t get k pop boy haircuts cause you’ll be cuter than kim jong un 🤣🤣🤣