Share here how did you approach or was approached to studying Marxism-Leninism. I’ll start.

I was initially drawn into understanding communism because of the fascist wave in Brazil, especially after the 2018 elections that got Bolsonaro into power. The liberals and fascists (frequently synonyms) were openly anticommunist, and their bizarre behavior and disregard for the poor was enough for me to realize they were enemies of the people.

So I began researching about communism to understand why they were so “afraid” of it, and downloaded some works of Marx to start reading, but I couldn’t read it by myself because I was never an avid reader and didn’t know where to start, because most of his works are dense. Until I found the subreddit r/communism, which at the time had a growing community around Marxism-Leninism, which through threads and comments got me started on it.

  • OdinTheProle
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    83 years ago

    Music unironically.

    Bob Dylan got me into Woody Guthrie which got me into Billy Bragg which got me into Immortal Technique which got me into Tupac/Dead Prez etc… and eventually lead to me deciding to pick up some books on socialism and began changing the way I view the world. I literally went from a SocDem to an ML because music was able to change my perspective on many issues.