Personally, I grew up on a single parent home, where I saw my mom get destroyed by her office work. The lack of unions, no external help and general misoginy, made her get super depressed, and became an alcoholic. In my teenage years I was almost lured by the manosphere communities, but got helped by a group of close friends that were left leaning. Most of them were anarchist, so I started with that. Slowly but surely, I started to understand how sick this system is, and it made me furious, but I never found a way to show my ideas. No political party represented my ideas, and I fell deeper in the anarchist rabbit hole. Yes, I was a hardcore anarkiddie, but I bite me back. When I needed them the most, they turned their backs on me, and fell into deep depression. And in seeking psychological help, my counselor recommended me going back to my roots. So I went back to videogames, japanese culture and most importantly, read again after years The Communist Manifesto. I still don't know how to position myself in the left, but I know that I'm a Marxist, and that I want change. Stay safe, comrades.
I lived in Italy when the great recession hit. The blatant imperialism by Germany, the heavy handed approach to SYRIZA's mild attempt to rebel from the Troika, my mom being unable to find a job for like 5 years and moving to Germany during the Syrian Refugee Crisis + still having parents being subject to exploitative work practices.
I read the Communist Manifesto once when I was bored and forced to go with mom to her job while I sat around, and became an anarchist despite opinions on Socialist Poland being fairly neutral in my family. Eventually, I got organized in a demsoc party and drifted further left.
It's not exactly going great, but then again what is?