Personally, I was a left liberal for all my life, but had kinda looked into the abyss of anti-sjw and gamergate stuff, like watching Sargon and Bearing, but hadn’t really subscribed to their beliefs, more putting them on as background chatter.
Things changed when I read manufacturing consent, listened to Chomsky and found Chapo at around the end of 2018, at which point I found myself as more an ancom, but Chomsky’s talking points on Leninism and the USSR was never as cogent and didn’t make as much sense as his other points, so I held skepticism about my beliefs then.
Reading more on theory and history, and looking more into different left tendencies via channels like Rev Left moved me over to be a Marxist, as it made the most sense to me in explaining the current and historical situation. Currently making my way through Lenin and looking more into historical ML states and I’ve found that I’m pretty comfortable as just a Marxist with ML tendencies rn.
my parents are conservatives, but my grandparents and great grandparents were communist revolutionaries that helped overthrow czechoslovakia’s government post-ww2. one of my great grandparents was an american that was part of the iww. personally? im some sort of council communist / centrist betwen MLs and anarchists. i vote for the communist party in czechia a lot, the guy i vote for actually cosponsored a lot of the lgbt bills and im lgbt so… i respect him a lot.
i still have a hard time understanding why my parents are shit.
