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!
The trick to overcome them is to look at their hypocrisy, self-contradiction, over-reaction to unproven human rights violations, story inconsistency, plot holes, plot armor, deux en machina, and handwaving previous allegation of human rights violation.