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?
“Marxist” is a vague term deployed by people who don’t want to tell you their explicit ideology because it inevitably alienates some group of people, or because they don’t know what their explicit ideology is yet.
I’m trade unionist sometimes. I’m a marxist at others. I’m an ML at others. I’m even a socdem when I was still doing work in the labour party (or else I’d have been purged).
In some situations I might say socialist instead of communist because it’s just more useful to use that term.
right, so it’s more of a “catch all” term, I see
Yeah exactly.