I've always been pretty big on reading, and I happened upon some cool political theory. My parents were also, to put it lightly, politically active, but I really had to learn it myself to get into it.
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there was a slow process starting in college that progressively dragged me left. but the truly radicalizing experience was 1. realizing while on a lot of lsd that I was lying to myself about my gender identity; 2. realizing at the same time that a truly safe world for me didn't exist, that it needed to be fought for and built, and that it was incompatible with liberalism; and 3. reading the Dispossessed a few weeks later which undid what remained of my liberalism by giving me hope. my heart will always be an anarchist even if my brain tells me the only path there is Marxism. and community defense will always be at the center of all of my projects.
this all happened following the battle in Charlottesville. it completely didn't make sense within the liberal framework I'd been taught. so I went seeking explanations. took about 6 months for the above realizations to hit.
John pilger documentaries and also not originally being from America or western imperialist country also helped.
Oh and seeing the Iraq war play out and abu ghraib in particular.
i always was kinda leftist and kinda anti-capitalist, but actually reading marx was the push i needed
I'm pretty privileged. I got really into Bernie in 2016, met and hung out with some anarchists who were my first proper introduction to leftist ideas, and then got "radicalized" when I got around to reading Lenin.
Jon Stewart
Radicalization was a gradual process but primarily being on tumblr during the Mike Brown wave of BLM.
2pac, Central American history, and Imperialist history
Big nerd. Read Capital like a nerd when I was pretty young. Went down the Socdem -> Demsoc -> commie pipeline by reading more for a few years, watching two-faced capitalist politicians hurt my neighbors (homeless people, renters, low wage workers), and recognizing how easy it is to propagandize Americans into supporting war, especially if it's against a dehumanized ethnicity.