This story in particular hits home so hard because I was very much plugged into the alt-right as a teenager and I grew up in such a conservative area that it wasn’t seen as such a big deal at the time.
It became obvious pretty quickly that the jokes were a cover for actual racism and hatred. Then I began the very long journey towards being a Marxist-Leninist. I can’t help but look back and shudder at what I could’ve been if I stayed in that horrible pipeline.
Democrats are so ridiculously out of touch that you have to stand in awe of how they cling to Obama era lingo while the Republican Party has morphed into a literal white nationalist movement.
Yeah she was a ML poli sci professor and I interviewed her for an assignment in a different class. I was a Bernie Bro at the time (lol). But I was already disillusioned by him because he kept referring to Joe Biden as “his friend”
She had a pictures of Lenin hung up all over her office. She recommended Stalin to me and I was a changed man after that
Das Kapital is such a dense text. I too haven’t been able to get through it. I remember being told as a child that Muslims hated me and wanted me dead and then I found out a good friend of mine in middle school was a Muslim which was one of my earliest awakenings.
Personally, I’ve been devouring Stalin’s books. Something about his writing style clicks so nicely for me. I will check out that book my Malcolm Harris! I’m fascinated by the history of labor organizing in the US that has been scrubbed from our history lessons.
I can relate to the autism, and political theory is definitely a special interest of mine. Neurodivergency alone was enough to make me feel completely alienated from my family and broader social group.
I wouldn’t call myself a supporter of Russia or Putin. But any country that stands up to U.S./NATO imperialism should have support from Marxists. Ukraine a proxy for U.S. intervention in Eastern Europe. Their military is also full of Nazis who have been trying to exterminate ethnic Russians in the Eastern regions of the country.
They never will. They don’t mind losing to Trump, but they won’t even try and win with a social democrat let alone a proper leftist
What utter garbage. You’re either against genocide or you aren’t. Whatever “middle ground” this is supposed to be just enables the oppressors. Fucking liberals
I’m right there with you on Das Kapital. It’s basically an economics textbook and economic analysis on that level is really tough for me. I am resigned to the fact that it’s going to take awhile