In a nutshell, mine would be:
- “My favorite color is red. Imma look up economic systems. Wait, what is socialism? Hey! The socialists like red! Oooooooh, their books are also red! I’m sure that these will be good reads-”
- A few hours later
- “Huh, I’m an ML now. I regret nothing.”
Though, I’m just asking what was the dumbest reason you get radicalized left-wards.
Because you saw Che’s face on a shirt and said “who tf is this dude?”. I don’t wanna mock it too much tho bc I heard that Che’s face is one of the most iconic/recognizable symbols in human history. But still a silly way to discover Marxism-Leninism
I view that on the level of people who wear a rolling stones t shirt but couldn’t name a single song.
But probably less so outside the imperial core.
I got a Rage Against the Machine Che shirt bc my town is kinda Republican lol, so I hide behind saying im just a big fan of RATM. I do like them but I think wearing a Che shirt without any knowledge of Marxism is silly, infinitely better than wearing Black Rifle Coffee or those USA shirts with the American flag and a gun on the sleeves(unfortunately popular in my area 🤮)
Fuck you for reminding me that Black Rifle coffee company exists! lol. The right and grifting name a more iconic duo.
Lmfao Black Rifle Coffee makes me laugh everytime bc Chapo did a hilarious bit about them. Basically they explained how Black Rifle tried to grift the entire GOP fanbase and when Trump separated the party even a tiny bit the customers complained that they weren’t pro-Trump enough
A Che Guevara shirt is what I bought after becoming a Marxist.
You may be joking but that was actually my first exposure to communism at all because his face was plastered on everything when I was a kid (it still is to some extent). I asked my parents who that guy was and looked him up, thought he was pretty cool then forgot about him for years.