I’m not sure if this question makes sense, but as someone fairly new to leftism, it seems a lot of time that far leftists and especially communists often don’t like non-leftists in any way and don’t want to interact with them, but that’s just what I’ve seen on the internet and I have no idea how it is in terms of real life friendships. I personally don’t know any other confirmed hard-line leftists in real life (I don’t know a lot of real life people at all TBH because I’m pretty introverted and suffer from social anxiety). What do you think? Do you have friends that are non-leftists and/or liberals? Should we?
most of my friends are socdems since i live in europe (some claim to be apolitical but in reality are also socdems). tho some of them are pretty anti-corporate, anti-capitalist leaning which might make converting them to full on socialists easier in the future
Same, I’m in the US, and most of my IRL friends (outside of the communist party I’m in) are socdems who love bernie. They’re not too many books or political disappointments away from making a hard left.