and i’m not saying they might not have...
but we have this friend who was upset about my recent instagram stream that was pro communism and that i was ignorant because his family only got one bag of rice for his big family and they weren’t able to get a new house without dirt floors and a leaking roof... so they fled on a raft that took 3 days.
so without saying “lmao sounds like made up bullshit” how do i say, “well actually they were probably middle class and didn’t actually need this or that blah blah blah”
she also thinks since i’m privileged and didn’t experience what his family did that i should maybe not be communist? idk i want to radicalize them both, but since his literal parents are anti communist it might be hard.
you're not gonna convince your friend. simply because it's really annoying to have americans explain your history to you. source: am ukrainian, am commie, still find it irritating af when anglos explain the ussr to me by quoting 20 different, all anglo historians.
with your gf - stick to the usual lib-to-left pipeline? there's a good list of materials on c/books i believe, sorted into lib/left levels. you could see if she's interested in a tiny reading circle with you. if she's into liberal feminism, marxist feminism is a good doorway to more general marxist thought.