Hello, baby Marxist here!

Personally mine was reading.

When I was a liberal I loathed reading and found it hard to even read a short article. I rarely researched everything I heard, and as a teenager, I was like every other liberal, getting my news off social media.

Now I make sure to research everything, however, getting into theory is a bit hard. Most of the information I learned about communism was through fellow comrades, because like before, I got my information from other people's comments.

Currently I'm restoring my motivation for reading by starting small. Reading long comments from comrades helped a lot. I've now moved on to reading information from leftist sources without effort, and I'm starting on reading the communist manifesto.

Enough about me, what were your side effects?

Breaking out of the whole liberalism thing is pretty hard and very rare, especially in the imperial core. There often isn't anyone else who listens or respects your political opinions, much less shares them. How do ya'll get by? I don't feel like I am.

I still cringe a small bit when saying or even thinking the word "communist, but for some reason fucking fine with "Nazis" or "fascists". Programming is fucking wack.

I was a wehraboo obsessed with german tanks, classic one of those "history buffs"

I used to be a Tojoboo (before I learned about the Nanjing massacre) I said "wW2 jApAn wAsN'T tHaT bAd tHeY jUsT cHoSe tHe wRoNg sIdE" and "tHeY sHoUlD hAvE lEt jApAn kEeP kOrEa tO pRevEnT dA eBiL kIM jOnG uN")

Thanks for the suggestions! I finally decided on the image of the community, and I decided to with a really cool image of a red clenched fist breaking through the floor:

I thought it could be symbolic for socialism/communism "breaking through" the lens of liberal propaganda. What do you think?

I also thought this one might have been cool, but it's US centric and also was originally meant to mock the Democrats by comparing them to evil commies, which I feel is the antithesis of this community. Either way, anyone actually prefer the one below?

I also like @[email protected]'s idea of someone reading communist works, and do want to use something like that as the banner, but unfortunately couldn't find an image with sufficient resolution or a horizontal aspect ratio. If anyone knows any image like that, please hit me up!

Anyone have some ideas for what we could put in the community icon and banner to represent this community?