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Yes I am a skinny "quirked up" white boy with long hair who grew up in sheltered white suburbia and smokes too much weed. Yes I am a college student who was introduced to communism online and rapidly became radicalized.
It's such perfect ammo and it is ruining me
Almost same but I live in a flat I don't smoke weed and I became a communist because I learned about Cuba wanted to know more and realized how much of communist "ideology" correlates with the views I already established on my own (for example I somehow managed to recreate the labour theory of value by reason and observation)
If you take the time to actually think about it and have any real world experience as a working class laborer its pretty much common sense to be leftist of some kind. "i make the thing but when we sell the thing this dumbass gets all the profit thats stupid" is a very easy position to come to. Its why the rich spend so much money propagandizing and turning the masses into a freakish reactionary horde. If they didnt theyd be overthrown pretty quick. The real accomplishment is having the soundness of mind to not be led astray by literally every piece of media ever made in the west. Its also why jobs that actually produce a surplus of labor value in a really obvious way tend to be looked down on in western society. Like "Burger flippers" produce a shit ton more value with their labor then some office worker. Yet theyre looked down on and office workers are considered to have a "respectable" job.