As a recently radicalized baby-lefty I’ve been thinking about this a lot
"the idea of a “moment” of radicalization is liberalism and connotes that people need this singular moment of experience or persuasion whereby they enter the class conscious state."
fair point, just goes to show that my perspective was influenced by my own experience, thanks for pointing it out because now I'm aware :D
So I guess the real question would be "What's your personal history with leftism?"
I radicalized when I started working and realized that this whole shit is bullshit.
I'm nd and had a lot of self hate, especially when I struggled to do 'normal' things like the hell that is modern education and work etc, because I bought the line that it was a personal failure, that I sucked and it was my fault, took a while to realize that no, this is unfair to except of anyone not just myself
I mean, because of that workplace I actually learned that I'm not neurotypical
Sure would be nice if we had actual support systems in place that helped people get to know themselves and their struggles so they can learn and grow in a healthy way!
fuckin hellworld...