I always called myself a socialist, but for most of my life I was really just some kind of dem suc that thought the government owning every business would be cool(no plan as to what happened to the business owners in this scenario, they just kinda accepted it). Then I started toying with further left ideas when Bernie looked like he had a shot, watching some breadtube and learning there was more possible than I imagined. Then Bernie got screwed over, submitted to the DNC and the racist neoliberal Joe like a dog, and I realized liberals were at best too stupid to let me and others make things better, and would be in many cases my enemies who would actively oppose my ideals. So I became a big-boy leftist, sorted my way through ideas, and settled on Marxism-Leninism, because I like winners. I like people that get things done, and Lenin got the job done.