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?
I’m not entirely sure if the question is “what do you do now because of past liberalism” or if it’s “what did you do while you were a liberal” so I’ll answer for both.
To the first, I find myself going down rabbit holes consuming all of the information i can on a topic before I form an opinion on it. In the process of my radicalization, realizing that I had been holding mistruths so close to my chest just because someone I trusted said it really opened my eyes to how much absolute bullshit the far-right conned me with.
To the second, When I was liberal, I was an anarcho-capitalist (see: priviledged & disenfranchised white cis-male teen). My major sources for anything were facebook meme pages, reddit, and conspiracy theory youtube channels. It feels like liberalism wants its followers to go to the least accurate sources as their “bible”, the entire system seems to be loosely tied together by this. Hell, every time MSM wants to push absolute hogwash they’ll get a tabloid like DailyMail to run something, just so they can quote it as a source.
Goodness! An ancap? Man, your story of converting really gives me hope for people!
We all turn 14 eventually.
Haha got that right comrade!