i wouldn’t date a lib, but i’m dating an anarchist right now. as i talk to her more about stuff, i think once she works through some of her issues, she’ll come around to the ML side a bit more.

Yes. I couldn’t date a hardcore anti-communist or something, because they would be inherently opposed to some of my fundamental beliefs. I don’t necessarily need to date someone that perfectly aligns with my politics either though, I am totally okay with dating a fellow traveler.

My partner is not exceptionally politically active and doesn’t really go into reading much theory. When it comes up we tend to agree on politics more than we don’t, but it isn’t something we really discuss a lot. She votes for our local communist party (which is more soc-dem for the most part but eh) more often than not, so that’s something.

I may need to switch up strat lmao, last 2 girls I was with both became FBI or Homeland Security 👀🧐 edit: I will add that both were on mutual agreement, no hard feelings (LUCKILY!! Otherwise they might have just put me on a watchlist for being a dick, big ups to them, cool people but not my kinda people) and no grudges.

I am married to someone that is ML or ML sympathetic. We don’t really proclaime to anyone we are ML unless we are talking to marxists but it has always been relevant to our politics. It’s not at all the totality of our politics because we are also interested in Indigenous perspectives and ML simply doesn’t engage with that enough in my opinion and experience. I like plural thinking more than getting fully caught up in a single tradition.

Anyway if I wasn’t married I would avoid getting caught up with SocDems at this point in my life. If someone can’t handle criticism of first worldist politics we are absolutely not compatible. But also I would be annoyed by an ML that can’t handle critical perspectives that come from Indigenous or place-based people. I would likely be more patient with a dogmatic ML than a SocDems tho.