I grew up in a conservative American family and was indoctrinated with chauvinistic beliefs from the beginning. It took me years of studying political science and economics just to warm up to leftist ideas, let alone embrace them.
Finally, I decided to read “Dialectical and Historical Materialism” by Stalin off a recommendation from one of my professors and it really changed my entire interpretation of the world. That started me down a path of reading any Marxist literature I could find.
I’m curious about the path that the rest of you took to get here!
9/11 was my first break from the induced slumber. When the country went absolute rabid apeshit over night I was caught offguard and suddenly found myself outside the thought-bubble. I’d always felt like even the “liberal democrats” weren’t going far enough for my tastes. From there it only worsened and eventually when Bernie ran I logged into Twitter for the first time in 7 or 8 years. I found a bunch of actual leftists and I realized that I wasn’t a liberal… I was far more left than the little bubble in American politics. That lead me to sites like this one and to read more books. Parenti videos on youtube were preaching the to choir.