It’s really just a progression of finding out how fucking evil the ruling class is right? Like learning how many people the US government has fucking murdered for bananas and shit really pushed me from rad lib soc dem to ML. Or is there more to it than that? Because if it is that simple we need a good way to agitate that better that doesn’t require a fuck ton of extracurricular reading.
For me I think step 4 and 5 came first. I was always suspicious of the media and nearly fell into the CNN FAKE NEWS trump pipeline, but then someone introduced me to manufacturing consent and my view got flipped. Then my hatred for the media grew more and more. I went down the reading Chomsky route, and imperialism was my next big leftist talking point. Chomsky then turned into Parenti, and my journey was ready to begin.
Also, a bailiff came and kicked our door down over an unpaid parking ticket, and then I went to work at an Amazon warehouse. I’m sure that also did a lot for me.
Yeah certain things can probably happen in distinctly any order, this is just generally the approach I take with people because trying to start a lib out with distrust of the media is significantly harder than teaching them what capitalism is. Most people are actually very willing to learn the basic fundamentals of capitalism because literally nobody has ever taught them, not once. When you ask people “what is capitalism?” you get quizzical looks of confusion like “well obviously I know the answer to that… but why don’t you tell me anyway?”.
When they learn what capitalism is and it is put in the language of class it becomes the foundation of everything they know in society and they become incapable of criticising society without relating it back to the class relations of capitalism. It’s an incredibly easy starting point.
Would probably be made much harder if liberals ever even tried to teach people what capitalism is but they deliberately do not. The fact that they glaringly avoided teaching capitalism to people becomes the basis for distrust of liberals going forwards.
