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Well, I was raised by communists so I never believed in the miraculous power of capitalism to begin with.
That said:
Back when I was a child I happened to pick up a copy of Blood Never Dried: a People's History of the British Empire, 'bout the time they I was being taught about the British empire in school. Read it yonks ago so I can't attest for the politics of the book but, I remember reading all the vile shit Churchill oversaw and then getting in an argument with the history teacher when she tried to brush it all under the carpet 'cos he personally stopped Hitler or whatever.
The capitalist class will not just commit genocidal slaughter, they'll demand your children are taught to worship the butchers like saints.
What's that like? Most people I can assume here were raised by people born into the system that can't fathom anything else. Or were raised by reactionaries from the post-Soviet or poat-Warsaw pact countries.
I grew up in [REDACTED], Wales. Historically it was one of the country's handful of hotbeds of communist activity. The local communist movement had been extinguished for some time before I was born, but my folks weren't willing to let that flame die.
Some of my strongest childhood memories were of being taken on protests. My parents had a wall in the house dedicated to shelves of whatever communist literature they could get their hands on. Growing up, they tried their best to try to instill Marxist ideology into me, and encouraged me to read up as much theory as possible. When I was in my early teens I had a brief rebellious period where I was a Blairite lib but I moved on from that very quickly 'cos all Blair's most ardent defenders are the least cool people on earth.