I ticked all the boxes in high school. Ironic-but-not-really fascist, incel, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion, pick a reaction, really. Now I’m happily married, father, Kinsey-1, reading theory, with growing class consciousness and looking to build solidarity with those people that a worse version of myself once dismissed as lesser or ungodly. It took leaving home, developing positive and loving male-male friendships, and being told that I was good enough and worth love irrespective of my accomplishments for me to start to develop the capacity to love others in the same way. Those who have traveled a similar path, what did it take for you?
I can’t even remember how my opposition to communism worked. It was like received knowledge, inviolable and eternal. Gommunism no füd.
the incredible cognitive dissonance you get to see when asking a lot of unreflected people what they think the “communism” they hate is
The only coherent parts I have been able to suss out from mainstream view of Communism are “not Capitalism” (where capitalism is usually confused with the concept of trade) and “uniformity”.
