I was already in my 30s in 2016 and already radicalized, but I still enjoyed seeing so many people move left. I had probably 10 friends/acquaintances tell me I was right after Bernie got ratfucked. More than a few are fully radicalized now.
As a teen I was mostly politically ignorant with an incoherent ideology. The internet was young then and I learned a few things, but not enough to really understand anything beyond “fuck these rich people”.
I floated around studying ideologies without really committing to anything until my mid 20s when I realized I was genuinely a socialist/communist and it wasn’t just a joke. I still flirted with anarchism for a few years, but eventually I realized there was no hope for anything short of a heavily organized vanguard party.
I still think it’s funny that one of the main reasons I moved further left is because rightwingers kept calling me a socialist/communist/radical leftist/etc. I only studied it in-depth because of that.
I was already in my 30s in 2016 and already radicalized, but I still enjoyed seeing so many people move left. I had probably 10 friends/acquaintances tell me I was right after Bernie got ratfucked. More than a few are fully radicalized now.
As a teen I was mostly politically ignorant with an incoherent ideology. The internet was young then and I learned a few things, but not enough to really understand anything beyond “fuck these rich people”.
I floated around studying ideologies without really committing to anything until my mid 20s when I realized I was genuinely a socialist/communist and it wasn’t just a joke. I still flirted with anarchism for a few years, but eventually I realized there was no hope for anything short of a heavily organized vanguard party.
I still think it’s funny that one of the main reasons I moved further left is because rightwingers kept calling me a socialist/communist/radical leftist/etc. I only studied it in-depth because of that.