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How tf does one become ultraleft? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm almost convinced that people don't become ultraleft; they end up ultraleft. What type of confusion, abuse, bigotry, whatever- it doesn't matter- turns someone into an ultraleft?

I'm at my wits end, are they just neoliberals that haven't accepted that fact?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From personal experience. I could have been considered ultra left when I first started to understand capitalism, imperialism, and real alternatives.

But the more I read, thought about it, watched, and spoke to people, the less ultra left I became.

So old white dudes were right. The older I got the more conservative I would become... Well, the less left .... Sort of...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Same. I started on the deep end because I had yet to be purged brain worms and found a version of leftism that said “those AES states you’ve been programmed not to like? Guess what, we got an ideology that lets you not purge those brainworms AND call yourself a communist”.

So glad the cth bullied me into reading , y’all do too, but isn’t as chronically needed as back then.