I've been firmly socially progressive ever since I got ever my edgy phase when I was like 13-16 years old so when it came time to vote I was a Labour voter, originally Corbyn and then Starmer. I didn't go deep into what these people represent or what they have done I just thought it was a fight to keep progressing and getting rid of the tories. I lacked any real political education and feel for the culture war bullshit, like many people.
All I heard all my life about communism is it is violent and brutal and it doesn't work and so on, I knew my country was far from perfect but I didn't think they would lie to me my whole life in so many different ways, so in a way the naïvety kept me anti-communist.
A few years ago I started getting really depressed and realised I had been quite depressed for a long time, it lead me to question everything, why should I live, what is this society, what type of person should I aim to be e.t.c. and while this was happening I was seeing the end of 14 years of the conservative government, I put all my hope in Labour bringing back hope and progress. Well it became clear maybe about 6 months in to Starmer's term that these guys are not the solution. Then I started getting into the tax the rich and wealth inequality sort of crowd (AOC, Gary's economics, JimmyTheGiant, Hasan somewhat) that pushed me to be less of a liberal and more of a demsoc, socdem type of guy and be opposed to neoliberalism and centrism.
But crucially after that depressive episode and the existentialising that came with it, I had learned to keep an open-mind and I realised that now identifying as a socialist, I was hearing about Marx and Lenin and I just decided to hear out these communists side of the story, because what didn't make sense was that if the USSR was everything I had been told about it, no one in their right mind would still be a communist.
I think it might have been Hakim who did the most for me with youtube class consciousness or whatever you want to call it but I can't remember an exact video that 'pushed me over the edge', so to speak. It didn't take long for me to recognise the genius in Marxism-Leninism anyway, I then had to undo all my anti-com propaganda (that was still making me doubt if I was on the right path) and start learning the theory, science, philosophy, start applying it where I could, and here I am now, still doing that. I've come to really love the online culture the imagery, the music - red sun in the sky will always be a hell of a tune - and the community of course, I really want to see that kind of community IRL one day.
Tried explain to my nana today that me owning a house is basically impossible even if I get a university degree and work very hard, saving up for decades, investing smartly, sacrificing my spare time e.t.c. which is unlikely for me to be able to handle as an autistic ADHDer.
I explained that most who own a house only can because they either did back when it was affordable decades ago like some of her friends or because their parents are wealthy and thus so are they because nepotism. She tried arguing, "well the world is just not fair like that" and I replied, "well let's fight to make it fair".
Slowly but surely my nana will be radicalised, I am the evil brainwashing commie grandson.
I was a liberal last year, I credit youtube docs for that more than anything else really
That helps me understand yeah, thanks & well said
Am I right in saying this is like how Maoists are different to Marxist-Leninist-Maoists and the Marxist-Leninists who follow Mao Zedong Thought because they ignore reality and follow the dogma? Or am I misunderstanding? I'm still a bit of a novice communist and get confused sometimes.
I totally see the progressiveHQ mods nuking that post, nice one with the archive
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Link to post, sort to controversial recommended
I would share some screenshots but I keep getting '400 rate limit error', whatever that means. Edit: screenshots have been commented
It is not the individuals at fault, it is the system and it's ruling class and this is evident if you actually educate yourself, so please do.
even r/conservative on reddit, the vast majority seem to be against it. That might change though once the propaganda goes on overdrive e.g. Fox News.
Ermmm, actually USA good because capitalism and white people, China bad because communism and not white people. It is literally this simple you silly tankie /s
it is supposed to be, yes lol
Just absurd.
Christ, so being able to own a home quite easily under western capitalism was only possible due to the pressure of communism (also it was 100% a white privilege), revolution really is so much more effective than reform it's laughable.
Xi Jinping, keep winning please!