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When I was 5 my mom took me to a Russian-Jewish family's apartment (right off the boat, refugees of rising antisemitism in the collapsing USSR) so they could start teaching me Russian. My mom doesn't speak it, but at that time she wasnt thoroughly alienated and wasn't ready to fully abandon our ancestors (I guess), thank god. Years later this family started talking to me about how Gorbachev fucked everything up and they hate him.
Being close with some of the cold war's victims made me highly skeptical of American hegemony, even if I didn't have a coherent critique. Fortunately, I did find the Communist Manifesto in my school library and was willing to read it because I knew Soviets. Still, it's taken decades to understand the world around me. I'm still working on it.
I bought Capital today.