I never get tired of 'em. I know we've discussed this before. I know the process is ongoing, not necessarily based on a single event, and depends a lot on your position in society. If discussing the radicalization of others, don't mention any methods unless people specifically told you that certain things radicalized them.
For me, I was a left-liberal for most of my life. Long story short, I ran in a state senate election trying to be as friendly to everyone as possible. The one thing I really wouldn't budge on was universal health care, since I knew from experience that it worked. I lost my election BADLY to a guy who ran on no platform at all, although he had much better name recognition. I worked so hard on that campaign and really was devastated and had to look for answers. Stupid as it sounds, at around that time I found the r/chapotraphouse subreddit and started listening to the podcast. That led to me listening to much better podcasts (like Revleft Radio), reading actual theory, and giving up on the Chapo podcast entirely once Bernie lost the last primary.
I'm always trying to radicalize others but I just usually get nowhere. George Floyd's death plus coronavirus I think resulted in a lot of people reconsidering things, but it seems like many of them have kind of swung back in the other direction now, at least as far as I can tell from watching my friends on Facebook. I've been arguing with my lib dad for months about all of this shit, with the result that he has actually gotten much better at deflecting Marxist points than the average lib lol. Sometimes I can get him to admit that everything is fucked and that Marxism is the only answer, at other times he'll say that we need to make friends with local business owners (some of the worst fucking people in the universe) and not alienate them.
Anyway, if you feel like writing your radicalization story or the radicalization stories of others, I'm happy to read.
Some important primers:
-hippy parents teaching me anti essentialism and anti imperialism from the get go.
-seeing anti democrat, anti republican signs at Iraq war protests and realizing that was possible.
-seeing a SAlt campaign flyer and realizing you were allowed to want things like "more money" and "less rent"
-anti obama repubs totally taking the edge off the word socialist
-seeing Cuban revolutionaries ripping down billboards and collectivizing property on an anticommunist documentary and thinking "that's possible? That's pretty neat"
-going to an alternative public school where they let students run the budget and do hiring and review and seeing that shit wasn't falling apart at the seems and was actually... better?
And finally...
Going on reddit where I was exposed to Libertarian Socialist Rants who espoused the first left wing position that resonated with me the whole way through (after being exposed to various flavors of trot, titoist, mlm, all the best /r/socialism had to offer). I've since grown away from that, more towards anarchism as a base with Marx, the situationists, and modern academic theory as influences, but that classic Rockerian Syndicalism is what got me here.
Wait that's a thing? Like did you vote on new hires?
I didn't personally, instead I was on a committee that identified needs for the school and delegated them to other committees, and on a committee dedicated to doing anti racist education of the student body.
The hiring committee did the whole thing. They'd start the year with a training, then when a position opened up, they'd take input from students and staff and write up interview questions and vote on who to fill the spot with. Both teachers and students had a vote, but students outnumbered teachers by quite a bit.