I grew up in a conservative American family and was indoctrinated with chauvinistic beliefs from the beginning. It took me years of studying political science and economics just to warm up to leftist ideas, let alone embrace them.
Finally, I decided to read “Dialectical and Historical Materialism” by Stalin off a recommendation from one of my professors and it really changed my entire interpretation of the world. That started me down a path of reading any Marxist literature I could find.
I’m curious about the path that the rest of you took to get here!
I was pretty deep in the liberal propaganda and was even a redditor at one point. It was the racism from liberals that first threw me off. Then when they started this xinjiang genocide narrative, that’s when the illusion finally broke. I speak Chinese, I saw a clip from the bbc and from John Oliver deliberately mistranslating people. The whole charade fell apart the second I did even the smallest bit of research. I started looking into the stuff they convinced me was bad. That’s when I found Marxist leninist thought. Suddenly everything made sense. The rest is probably the same as everybody else.