I was a member of what was basically a right-of-center liberal party here in Argentina. This remained the case for all my teens and early twenties - being largely asocial in a high income area allowed me to be blind to the horrors of capitalism. Slowly, largely thanks to university (I’m a history major), moving to a bigger city and dating a guy who is part of the local Communist party I began to be very intersted in studying marxism (which at this point I saw as a relic being taught at universities) and historical socialist societies, particularly the PRC, and I gained a better understanding of these societies which made me divorce from all the propaganda sorrounding them. I think I became a “proper” communist when I sat down and actually studied historical materialism - it was a mind opening experience if I ever had one. I felt like I could finally understand reality without all the shitty overgrowth of ideology that had plagued my mind for all these years.