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How did you turn to the left? How did you come across genzedong/lemmygrad? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I'll start first: at the height of reddit going absolutely mad and frothing at the mouth I heard r/genzedong mentioned a lot as this evil evil tankie place, so I checked it out. Was a bit overly china fanboy-ish for my taste back then but alright overall and leagues more civil than people on other subs. So I started lurking over there to preserve my sanity until it basically became my most frequently viewed sub. I've kinda warmed up to the whole idea of socialism during my stay. And then it got quarantined. I've heard of lemmygrad even before the quarantine, so I switched to this place instead. As of this moment, lemmygrad remains my primary source of news and entertainment where I dont have to risk running into some flavour of wehraboo.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

A Marxist politely told why I was wrong about almost everything and told me to read Marx.

It probably helps that I already had the same broad political goals, I just thought they could be achieved through liberalism and voting. They calmly and respectfully highlighted the contradictions in that way of thinking until I said, 'But how can we achieve any progress, then, if none of it is possible in capitalism?' ๐Ÿ’ก

A real lightbulb moment! Now read Marx, young redtea, he has the answers you're looking for.

So it took a while to get my head in the right space, where I needed to know the Marxist perspective on everything. Then I gorged on Marxist texts until I had re-educated myself.