in terms of political labels: what are you now, and what were you before you became what you are now? (lemmygrad.ml)

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would like some data! too bad we can't do polls on lemmy.

i'm curious about this since i'm wondering how many people required a gradual approach towards radicalization (first a liberal, then a soc dem etc, then marxist) vs a clean break (liberal straight to marxism, for example).

i assume most people here are ML now, but i guess i don't know that with a lot of certainty either, so that could be interesting data as well.

for reference: i went from baby liberal, to uneducated and unlabeled idealist anarchist who was basically a socdem, then straight to ML.

edit: thanks for all the responses!!! interesting to hear everyone's political journey. i will probably wait until this leaves the front page and then do some simple data analysis to publish here in the near future: how many participants vs daily/weekly users, how many stages people went through, etc etc

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[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

I've written about it in detail here before, but the short version is it was pretty gradual.

Something like: vaguely anti-capitalist cause of persistent video game industry nonsense -> vaguely socdem cause of Bernie's campaign and getting into twitter political sphere (and being in an economic situation that saw the sense in what Bernie was pushing for) -> languished a bit in "libertarian socialist" ("I'm not the scary socialist, I believe in bottom up power!") -> gradually started to understand anti-imperialism and warmed up to ML -> read / was introduced to some actual theory -> mind blown, realized how small my political world actually was up to that point and how big it was outside of what I'd known -> from spending time here, became more solidified as ML and anti-imperialist, and as understanding imperialism to be the primary contradiction.

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