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?
Having a family member that defected to the ussr in the 80s and her stories of actually living under communism humanised the USSR to me a lot, I never really saw them as evil when I was a liberal just as a place that existed and then stopped existing. Idk, I’m too tired for a big write up rn but I think the humanisation of the ussr was what meant that I never saw them as this great evil force like many other newly “radicalised” westerners do (and, to a lesser degree did at the time)
Also seeing Corbyn hounded out of power and being coupled by the liberal elements of his own party that would rather throw away the election than risk winning with a “far left” leader
Yeah the only leftist party in the UK with a decent chance of winning replacing their leader for a TERF sucks so much