Hello, baby Marxist here!
Personally mine was reading.
When I was a liberal I loathed reading and found it hard to even read a short article. I rarely researched everything I heard, and as a teenager, I was like every other liberal, getting my news off social media.
Now I make sure to research everything, however, getting into theory is a bit hard. Most of the information I learned about communism was through fellow comrades, because like before, I got my information from other people’s comments.
Currently I’m restoring my motivation for reading by starting small. Reading long comments from comrades helped a lot. I’ve now moved on to reading information from leftist sources without effort, and I’m starting on reading the communist manifesto.
Enough about me, what were your side effects?
The biggest side effect I experienced didn’t come till after I grew the fuck up and realized all the bullshit. It’s an extreme feeling of cringe, shame, and disgust at myself. It’s also a source of hatred for the people that made me that way and also I have trouble not reacting aggressively towards anyone that spouts that nonsense in my presence now.
rise above