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Thank you for posting this. It's pretty valuable for me. I remember when I was in your position. I got banned from multiple communist communities because I was engaging the way I was taught to engage in university. There, I was allowed to just posit bullshit and get argued with. I thought it was the normal way of doing things. Getting slammed by commies over a couple of years made me realize that I was putting a ton of intellectual and emotional burden on them and instead what I needed to do was to become more curious than I knew how. As I finally developed that sort of curiosity, I suddenly started to learn more (go figure) and then I became one of those people who didn't want to deal with the same liberal arguments against communism that come up thousands of times a day.
So, good on you for starting to navigate this. I'm fairly confident that the reason you don't see yourself agreeing with the revolutionary communist left is because you're "not used to the incredibly in-depth dialectic with a non-/anti-Western point of view". Once you get enough of the historical context behind this position, you'll start to really ask questions about how we solve it and why we can't solve it in other ways. And then you'll find that there's historical context to those answers as well, and the long and the short of it ends up being, you're not entering in a brave new world where people are just starting to come to consciousness. You're a Westerner who is just starting to come to consciousness in a world that has been working through this dynamic for well over a century now.
Stay curious!