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
Edgy “Stirnerite” (due to vibes) at 16, left-wing fascist sympathizer at 18-19 (due to environment), typical socdem till 23, Marxist-Leninist at 24 and going. To be honest my radicalization came from watching a theatre performance that said “mortgaged credit = 30 years of serfdom” and then joining a local communist org.
can you briefly expand on the first two? i’m turning the responses into a small dataset to share with everyone and don’t want to misinterpret you. are “Stirnerites” some breed of anarchist? and, by left-wing fascist sympathizer do you just mean a left liberal?
At high school, it was during Philosophy classes that I was looking for “edgy” philosophy to “debunk” the liberals and found Strinerism appealing (though to be honest, jn the hindsight, I did not understand a single thing of it). Then I mingled with some metalheads of the “trve” sort that mainly listen to 1st and 2nd wave of black metal and epic heavy metal (Tank, Omen, Ostrogoth etc.) and they were hailing at events to which if someone took notice it was reduced to “its just a joke bro, chill out” but was really a quiet admiration of Hitler. At the same tome I held infantile leftist believes that “we should be equal”, “people should have homes” etc, while also not being partial to for example listening to bands like M8L8TH or some Rock-Against-Communism.