I grew up in a very lib city (you can guess which one by my username) and my dad is and remains an obama-type lib. I used to be semi-friends with this guy in high school who was a massive fan of Marx. I was in a school club with him. He never really tried to teach me about Marxism but he would tell me how great Marx was. Unfortunately I never really became interested and thought his interest in Marx was bizaare. Later in high school I somehow got added to a facebook group that belonged to the Socialist Club in my high school (btw the club was labeled as "Unknown Club" or some shit in the yearbook). Idk if they added me because I was friends with a few people in the club or saw that I could be moved to the left, but I never really took an interest because I just kind of assumed that socialism was bad because of liberal propaganda. I also never showed up to the irl club meetings. During college I realized how fucked America is and became a soc dem and a Bernie supporter. I started listening to David Pakman on YouTube. I liked Pakman's views but started to seek out other media because I grew sick of him complaining about Trump. Somehow, this lead me to listening to Zizek lectures on YouTube, which really appealed to me because he ranted about the pretentious and fake white liberals that I grew up around. This opened my eyes to more radical views. After this I listened to Vaush for a short time (I know) but found him obnoxious. Then I moved on to communities like r/genzedong and r/shitliberalssay, and discovered Hakim on YouTube. Also listened to some Parenti stuff. This stuff totally instilled communism into my psyche and I started to read theory after that.