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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)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@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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[–] TotallynotinIran@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

apolitical -> Marxist -> Mostly Marxist-Leninist

I was pretty much apolitical and mostly focused on gamedev and video games in general rather than politics. I did however have some liberal tendencies due to both the gamedev scene and me being queer.

A lot of things changed me and for me after the 12 day war. I decided to understand the world and be more knowledgeable on politics, in short why do the things currently happening happen. Seeing that a lot of my countrymen didn't show much concern about our country being bombed by the countries they ovulate for, I decided to question whatever they hate. One of those was and is "the left", as they put it. Throughout all my life I always heard about how everyone hates "the left". No one would say what "the left" in question actually believed in. The only thing everybody would repeat was that "they caused the revolution and took the freedom we had under Pahlavi", "they were islamists", "our lives suck because the Islamic republic is leftist"(!!!!), ignoring how, in 1988, thousands of the same leftists were executed by the IR, and the rest had to escape, leaving the Iranian workers' movement paralyzed (besides like a hundred more reasons). In short, they didn't make sense, so I decided to find out the truth on my own. The communist manifesto, being as famous as it is no matter the amount of anti-communist propaganda, was my first choice. With reading it I started the journey that would make me a Marxist.

After I became a Marxist, I came to despise most pro-capitalist social media. Also since I had a little experience with lemmy after the reddit blackout (I'm not a redditor anymore) before moving to tumblr, I decided to take a look again to see if it has become more populated or not as I actually did like the idea behind it. This brought me into lemmygrad and eventually into the ProleWiki project which has since made me a more mature Marxist and a helped me become a Marxist-Leninist.