would like some data! too bad we can’t do polls on lemmy.
i’m curious about this since i’m wondering how many people required a gradual approach towards radicalization (first a liberal, then a soc dem etc, then marxist) vs a clean break (liberal straight to marxism, for example).
i assume most people here are ML now, but i guess i don’t know that with a lot of certainty either, so that could be interesting data as well.
for reference: i went from baby liberal, to uneducated and unlabeled idealist anarchist who was basically a socdem, then straight to ML.
edit: thanks for all the responses!!! interesting to hear everyone’s political journey. i will probably wait until this leaves the front page and then do some simple data analysis to publish here in the near future: how many participants vs daily/weekly users, how many stages people went through, etc etc
I was vaguely a social democrat growing up, very nordic model inclined. I had a fairly unfortunate upbringing and got to experience first hand a lot of scum landlords and classist peers. Became a baby Marxist by around 16-18 by reading a bit of introductory theory but was mainly just surviving for most of my teens. Due to the politics of where I live and the history surrounding a lot of ML groups I fell in with Trotskists at university. I will not be elaborating. From there I did become quite grounded in a lot of Marxist theory (from an obviously skewed lens) but the rampant left sectarianism, useless attempts at organising and hate for AES became too much for me as I read more ML theory and watched the events of this last decade unfold. I would say I am a Marxist Leninist these days.