I consider myself first having become a lower-case c “communist” when I was 14. It’s been a while. I was radicalized by shitty living situations first and foremost, but through hours upon hours of deep diving Wikipedia and finding sources through them like the Grayzone (that they called conspiracist) I started calling myself a communist.
In fairness, I was mostly just an edgy, angry little shit. I was a “communist” first, then an anarchist, then a Maoist, and after finally starting to read theory beyond surface level stuff I’ve found myself at Marxism-Leninism. So it’s a little different, but the internet definitely radicalized me, an isolated hick from a Midwestern town the size of some classrooms. It’s a unique and individual experience, but I’m sure it’s only one out of many, many similar experiences, and many to come.
I consider myself first having become a lower-case c “communist” when I was 14. It’s been a while. I was radicalized by shitty living situations first and foremost, but through hours upon hours of deep diving Wikipedia and finding sources through them like the Grayzone (that they called conspiracist) I started calling myself a communist.
In fairness, I was mostly just an edgy, angry little shit. I was a “communist” first, then an anarchist, then a Maoist, and after finally starting to read theory beyond surface level stuff I’ve found myself at Marxism-Leninism. So it’s a little different, but the internet definitely radicalized me, an isolated hick from a Midwestern town the size of some classrooms. It’s a unique and individual experience, but I’m sure it’s only one out of many, many similar experiences, and many to come.