Eh, they got me to not automatically hate socialism. And now I'm on here arguing with internet randoms that Cuba, Vietnam, and the USSR are awesome. It's a process.
I think this is probably the true legacy of the Bernie movement. I'd wager that anyone radicalized around 2016 and even many around the 2019/2020 period was influenced in some way by Bernie. Even me, who was already becoming radicalized around then for separate reasons, I know I benefited from Bernie making socialism more acceptable. The whole thing also probably pushed me away from lifestyle anarchism and towards a more principled stance that eventually led to Marxism.
I was less influenced by Bernie than I was by the DNC totally shutting him down. That was what taught me that the entire system is unsalvageable and pushed me into learning the real reasons why things are like this.
I haven't even considered the word 'radicalized' in a while. I didn't feel like heathcare pls, genocide is... le bad!, the dissolution of the US and its middle eastern outpost, war crime trials, trans people are... le good!, unions, trains, cooperating on the fruits of labor, and shit like that was even radical. It's not like people like the current system or the people in charge in the current year - it seems like the layman likes 8 to 10 out of 12 things that a communist would want and change their mind on 1 or 2 by way of simple exposure.
For me radicalization is synonymous with learning to be anti-capitalist and developing class consciousness. Before that most people can’t articulate why we can’t have all the nice things you mentioned.
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Eh, they got me to not automatically hate socialism. And now I'm on here arguing with internet randoms that Cuba, Vietnam, and the USSR are awesome. It's a process.
I think this is probably the true legacy of the Bernie movement. I'd wager that anyone radicalized around 2016 and even many around the 2019/2020 period was influenced in some way by Bernie. Even me, who was already becoming radicalized around then for separate reasons, I know I benefited from Bernie making socialism more acceptable. The whole thing also probably pushed me away from lifestyle anarchism and towards a more principled stance that eventually led to Marxism.
I was less influenced by Bernie than I was by the DNC totally shutting him down. That was what taught me that the entire system is unsalvageable and pushed me into learning the real reasons why things are like this.
It was the same for me.
fellow "I watched bernie get ratfucked in real time and now I'm a dirty commie" pipeline experiencer checking in
the radicalization path
describes a greater portion of hexbears than "has read marx"
I haven't even considered the word 'radicalized' in a while. I didn't feel like heathcare pls, genocide is... le bad!, the dissolution of the US and its middle eastern outpost, war crime trials, trans people are... le good!, unions, trains, cooperating on the fruits of labor, and shit like that was even radical. It's not like people like the current system or the people in charge in the current year - it seems like the layman likes 8 to 10 out of 12 things that a communist would want and change their mind on 1 or 2 by way of simple exposure.
For me radicalization is synonymous with learning to be anti-capitalist and developing class consciousness. Before that most people can’t articulate why we can’t have all the nice things you mentioned.
The only real "progressives" are those that want to progress to communism