Sorry if the title is a bit weird, I’m curious about what made you believe what you do. Mainstream leftism usually doesn’t go any further than trans rights or maybe UBI in some places, at least from what I know, so what made you go beyond that? You can answer generally or talk about a specific belief, just wanna see what caused the more radical opinions in you
I’m particularly curious about what changed your opinions about the USSR and China, most people think they’re awful, but in here they’re really liked and defended, I’ve even seen a lot of posts denying the Tiananmen massacre and the Holodomor and stuff like that, what made you go to such lengths?
Working jobs where I had to count the nightly deposit and it was 3x the biweekly pay of the whole staff despite corporate doing diddly squat in the running of the store is what radicalized me. Turns out you pick up the Labor Theory of Value real quick once you’ve lived it.
Likewise, I’m willing to disbelieve the official government position and the mainstream media because they proved themselves untrustworthy. The Iraq War dispelled any illusion I had that these people would tell the truth, and learning about things like the government’s interventions in other countries and in the country’s own social movements for racial equality in the 60s or wealth redistribution in the 2010s made me realize that their interests were directly opposed to my own. Though it wasn’t until I had a proper materialist grounding with a Marxist education that I was able to look objectively and critically at international relations.
yeah I have friends in the US who just to pay their god damn education need to be working like that for years. it’s absolutely horrifying
the way the US lied about all the shit they did in the middle east is absolutely disgusting, and learning that also made me learn what they did in my country, I really share the US hatred in this community, I’m glad it’s so blatant because in moderate left communities everyone still tries to sorta justify it. “we do the right things for the wrong reasons” and that kinda stuff