Personally, I was a left liberal for all my life, but had kinda looked into the abyss of anti-sjw and gamergate stuff, like watching Sargon and Bearing, but hadn't really subscribed to their beliefs, more putting them on as background chatter.

Things changed when I read manufacturing consent, listened to Chomsky and found Chapo at around the end of 2018, at which point I found myself as more an ancom, but Chomsky's talking points on Leninism and the USSR was never as cogent and didn't make as much sense as his other points, so I held skepticism about my beliefs then.

Reading more on theory and history, and looking more into different left tendencies via channels like Rev Left moved me over to be a Marxist, as it made the most sense to me in explaining the current and historical situation. Currently making my way through Lenin and looking more into historical ML states and I've found that I'm pretty comfortable as just a Marxist with ML tendencies rn.

  • StemOpDeSossen [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I was an Obama lib as a kid (I had his inauguration speech on my wall in elementary school, cringe ik), but of course not a serious one since I thought Obama stood for good things and I didn't really understand politics. Then as I got older I started getting into stuff like Jon Stewart/TYT and was essentially a socdem but I felt like something was a little off about TYT's politics that I couldn't really place, until Bernie's two runs, Michael Brooks' show, and my YDSA all solidly pushed me to the left :) I am still reading, figuring out my tendencies and stuff, but think it's safe to say I probably am not an anarchist.