• SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Eh, they got me to not automatically hate socialism. And now I’m on here arguing with internet randoms that Cuba, Vietnam, and the USSR are awesome. It’s a process.

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      3 months ago

      I think this is probably the true legacy of the Bernie movement. I’d wager that anyone radicalized around 2016 and even many around the 2019/2020 period was influenced in some way by Bernie. Even me, who was already becoming radicalized around then for separate reasons, I know I benefited from Bernie making socialism more acceptable. The whole thing also probably pushed me away from lifestyle anarchism and towards a more principled stance that eventually led to Marxism.

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        I haven’t even considered the word ‘radicalized’ in a while. I didn’t feel like heathcare pls, genocide is… le bad!, the dissolution of the US and its middle eastern outpost, war crime trials, trans people are… le good!, unions, trains, cooperating on the fruits of labor, and shit like that was even radical. It’s not like people like the current system or the people in charge in the current year - it seems like the layman likes 8 to 10 out of 12 things that a communist would want and change their mind on 1 or 2 by way of simple exposure.

        • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          For me radicalization is synonymous with learning to be anti-capitalist and developing class consciousness. Before that most people can’t articulate why we can’t have all the nice things you mentioned.