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!

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Yeah like having my food tray at lunch as a 9 year old ripped out of my hands and thrown in the trash in front of me because i couldn’t pay, and being given a cheese sandwich so that when i walked out with it everyone would know my family can’t afford to feed me. Even as a kid you know there is something fundamentally wrong with that.

    • haui@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Exactly and that compounds. There is this saying “you can pull someone oyt of the gutter but never the gutter out of them.” Today i still get irrationally angry if someone wastes food or behaves wasteful or careless with my stuff. This shit stays.

      And 20 yrs later you talk to a colleague and they rip into another colleague for wearing the same pants as yesterday

      I would not piss on these people if they were on fire. I know its cruel and unepathetic. I dont care. I simply dont. I know I should, but i dont.