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.
I’ve seen a bunch of posts on /r/anarchism where they were like:
“I became a tankie to piss off my siblings / parents. Was one for 2 years. Once I learned about how authoritarian the USSR was I became an anarchist”
Its all just ideology shopping to be contrarian, while doing none of the reading or actually learning what its about.
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Ron Paul would probably cry if he heard that his GOP debate answers literally turned you communist lmao
China uncensored made me become an ML Lmao.
Ive watch lots of china uncensored (and also xenophobic media) that made me became anti-china (and xenophobic, thank god ive gone away with that) so bad back then. And then i wonder ‘how the fuck does these genocidal bat soup CCP (slurs) have so much power’. Ive digging into how the CPC and china works… then… ive came across marxist.org and show me all of the CPC stuffs… and you goddamn know ive read all of it, and also stumble accross the r/Genzedong subreddit and other ML subs… which slowly… slowly made me realized that ALL of the stories and videos about china from the west is all just…
BIG. BULLSHIT.
And also it learn me how racism is fucking wrong and just messed up. So yeah ive got to thanks falun gong propaganda for making me an ML lol
Major redemption arc. Glad you’ve made it ❤
I used to watch China Uncensored back when I was in high-school, and I still feel incredibly shitty for ever having taking him seriously.
I mean this isn’t why I did but I think you’re asking for joke answers, right?
Best fashion and facial hair game in town.
TRUE. THOSE MFS JUST GET IT
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I’m asking for both serious and joke answers. I am looking for “dumbest reason u became commie” lol
Drip.
Then u (and fellow MLs) have elite fashion sense. (I’m more of a casual wear guy, but I see the appeal in comie outfits)
Fucking clean (I would actually wear that coat fr)
Everything I do I do it well comrade. When I’m chilling I chill comfy, when I’m working I look sharp. Simple as.
I shit you not I have real life friends who used to be far right chuds who have become pretty left leaning all because they started doing psychedelics. Apparently it made them “more open” to other ideas.
And it’s like…the world man…and we…we’re like…everything’s connected and stuff and wow…love? has a psychotic breakdown
“I have a big bushy beard and someone I know made a joke asking if I was going to dress up as some dude named " Marks” or something for Halloween. I looked him up and he was some old German guy that wrote some books. So I downloaded one and read it. Now I want to see the downfall of capitalism."
In 2019: Who’s this Tito guy everyone talks about non-stop? Omg this moustache man saved us from Germany in WW2!!! USSR best country it’s not yours it’s ours, vodka, bears, Slav squat, kazotsky kick, earrape anthem I’m so funny👌🤣
Wait a minute, what if there is more in this ideology? What if I actually read into it… Welp the bearded man was 100% right and I want to kill all the rich and destroy USA and Europe NOW!
That’s the evolution, funny thing is, in 2017 I wondered: what if there was no religion, it’s unfair that there are so many rich people while half of the normal population can’t afford basic needs and why do we must listen to bad governments, who don’t we overthrow them? Turns out there is a whole ideology based around it. Even tho then I was kind of an anarchist then(I didn’t know the term and ideology for it, my views were like that of anarchism). And here I am. From cringe to based in a few years.
Well for me being a hipster edgelord and liking obscure ideologies helped me being open towards the idea of communism in general, even though all I “knew” about it were bourgeois myths lol. I was at a point where I was desperately trying to make sense of the world, and yet, I couldn’t agree with any of the philosophies I read about. All of them were first-world idealist bourgeois nonsense, which didn’t fit with my own personal experiences as a third-world prole.
I was at a point where I was desperately trying to make sense of the world, and yet, I couldn’t agree with any of the philosophies I read about. All of them were first-world idealist bourgeois nonsense, which didn’t fit with my own personal experiences as a third-world prole.
I feel that!
Le epic USSR and DPRK music
the music slaps so hard
I may be biased though…
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Yeah, in general, all soviet weapons are very enjoyable in COD.
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.
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At a point I was like that too. “I’m not a commie, but hey, you gotta know your enemy” and then I found myself agreeing to everything.
I follow a philosophy channel on YouTube, about 2 years ago, when covid started he did a live about Marxism with a professor where he debunked some common myths and generally upholded Marxism, unfortunately he is a trot so I became that, not for long fortunately :-)
Long ago, I wrote my high school thesis on Stalin, and I don’t exactly remember the details, but I remember picking my thesis because I thought it would be easy, it was based on some propagandistic representation of the non-aggression pact between USSR and Germany during WWII. Then when I began researching and reading more detailed books as research for the thesis I realised I couldn’t even logically defend it at all. So I wrote a 4000 word essay with no solid conclusion. That made me realise that many things that were taught to me in my “Western education” were lies and misrepresentations. The entire experience made me feel pretty stupid.
Was watching a debate between Richard Wolf and some libertarian guy. Ended up looking up who Richard Wolf. Then ended up looking at his lectures/programs to figure out where he was coming from. Then he mentioned something about the US having actually invaded Russia and that just opened up a whole new perspective.
