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.
Working for several years, feeling that alienation directly on multiple levels, and trying to discover why the highest paid and most vile people tended to make more money and work less than everyone else. Its hard to work for several years and not try to resolve that contradiction either by going into the root causes ( capitalism, class struggle, etc which inevitably leads you to Marxism ), or by going into conspiracy theories.