• mayo_cider [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    I was already pretty deep down the leftist pipeline, but I'd lie if I said Bernie didn't influence me

    For a second I believed in electoralism and thought that there was a nonviolent option left

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      Bernie, along with Kyle Kulinski are who got me into socialism to begin with (or rather, started me down the line. Richard Wolff is actually who got me into post-capitalism idiology).

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Pretty cringe to admit this but oh well: I started reading Marx specifically because I wanted to learn more about what socialism was, without hearing it from a biased source. I wanted to hear it from the man himself. And although I considered it for a time before Bernie, I think his unashamed self-description as a socialist pushed me to actually read.