I did the same recently! Currently doing my candidacy.

I’ve been called an antifa bastard by a landlord I worked for

As an ex-Mormon, I’ll never be at a point in my life where I could discuss theology with a Mormon without absolutely losing my mind lol.

Whatever cool shit I can thrift.

Just here to say that both of those PSL books are excellent resources. I just finished Theory and Practice for Socialist Organizers last week and it gave me a much more comprehensive understanding or Marxist inquiry and presentation, which has been suuuper helpful in my reading of Capital. I highly recommend PSL literature in general.

My limited advice to OP: if you have any organizations nearby, maybe go to some meetings or rallies? You don’t have to do so with the explicit purpose of wanting to be an organizer (I know it’s not possible for everyone), just go to interact with others. I was pretty alienated from everyone for a while (ever since 2020 really) and I started going to DSA organized mutual aid, rallies, psl meetups, etc. and it really helped to build back my social skills and overall has helped my mental well-being.

Amilcar Cabral. He led Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde in an anti-colonialist movement against the Portuguese Colonialists. He was an expert in dialectics and formed a revolutionary theory specific to the conditions of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. His work went on to inform Paulo Freire’s thought.

My wife and I are both communists, we’re also ex-Mormon as well. Leaving that cult really helped radicalize us. Once you learn to see through the bullshit in one oppressive system, it is pretty easy to do the same in regards to the political economic system that you live under.