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?
I went through the same period of seeing how everything was wrong but not understanding why, and no one else seemed to resonate or agree with me as much. I do think the left is really the only place that has a proper model for how things work and an explanation of what’s happening that’s, well… true. the right just keeps jumping on narratives, it’s always the fault of the current boogeyman, it’s always the immigrants accompanied by first the blacks, then the gays, now it’s the transes, in some places it’s the jews, it’s always the fault of someone else and the idea is that if they go away everything will be magically resolved. when it doesn’t, then they just immediately blame the next thing. and then any suggestion on how to actually improve things is shut down because if it doesn’t go against the market then it’s against human nature, whatever that even means.
basically I’ve always rejected those kinda narratives and looked at the systems that cause things, and that just automatically placed me in the left even if I didn’t know what it was because no one in the right ever does that, I don’t know if I’m a full blown communist though, never really looked into these things until now