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in terms of political labels: what are you now, and what were you before you became what you are now? (lemmygrad.ml)
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would like some data! too bad we can't do polls on lemmy.

i'm curious about this since i'm wondering how many people required a gradual approach towards radicalization (first a liberal, then a soc dem etc, then marxist) vs a clean break (liberal straight to marxism, for example).

i assume most people here are ML now, but i guess i don't know that with a lot of certainty either, so that could be interesting data as well.

for reference: i went from baby liberal, to uneducated and unlabeled idealist anarchist who was basically a socdem, then straight to ML.

edit: thanks for all the responses!!! interesting to hear everyone's political journey. i will probably wait until this leaves the front page and then do some simple data analysis to publish here in the near future: how many participants vs daily/weekly users, how many stages people went through, etc etc

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[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Thanks to my family, I grew up a communist (always anti-imperialist, but utopian, I was a child), had a brief interest in anarcho communism in school, before becoming first a Marxist, then a Marxist-Leninist.

A friend of mine said I'm privileged to have grown up like this and they have a point. I'm glad I didn't grow up in a liberal, white, racist family. But I don't feel that privileged. With a family of refugees and victims of imperialist wars, I was forced to develop my consciousness quickly. Like everyone else, I was surrounded in school and society by a constant onslaught of liberal propaganda. But I couldn't tune it out. These wars were directly effecting me and my family. The racism was effecting us. I couldn't choose not to be interested in politics. I had to deal with the dissonance.