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?
Bernie Sanders and working a Real Job pushed me toward democratic socialism, and then I did this thing called “read theory” (actually it was history books, not abstract theory, that made me the most radical)
aren’t most historians or people studying history extremely disproportionately to the left? I’ve seen some people say if reading history doesn’t push you to the left you didn’t understand it