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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)
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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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[–] TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Apolitical due to religion -> sort of socdem / anarchist -> Commie

My religion forbade politics in any meaningful way. After I stopped believing it, I thought that the Nordic model was alright. I also thought Anarchism had some good ideas since it was pretty obvious that the US was going down to fascism (but I still thought the EU were good boys and China ebil) but I didn't know how disconnected communes could produce a cell phone or publish a book.

Then I watched a lot of Disco Elysium content and remembered about Dialectical Materialism (something that I heard about in the past. it was supposedly "debunked" but I was still intrigued by it). Went to r/Communism and saw the reading list. I wanted to read.

Then I saw "Stalin" as one author of a book and I was completely confused by this. Wasn't Stalin a dictator? Then I read more about the Soviet Union and Marx and who Stalin was. Now I'm here.