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 don’t know if PSOE specifically did that, but the ruling government did when our president asked them. Pretty chauvinist if PSOE did that, I thought they were ML.
If the president who asked for it was AMLO, then yes, it was the PSOE who refused to retract. And no, the PSOE is not ML, it’s not even considered social democratic lol. It’s a socioliberal party, and inspired by the US Democratic party.
Oh, that’s awful. I just read a little about them, seems like it’s a thing that happened to all Second International/Socialist International parties, slowly becoming the most lukewarm of reformists over a century.