From my own experience, it's a combination of becoming much more aware of the consent manufacturing machine and learning much more about what the US has been and is doing across the globe. Parenti, The Jakarta Method, and Blowback are probably the big three for me.
Yeah the DPRK stuff was really eye opening. The Juche gang must be given support
Cuba tho, my god, I knew the story (had a based teacher in HS who taught us about decolonization and the Cuba unit was awesome), but the Blowback presentation...
had a based teacher in HS who taught us about decolonization
This was what I was missing that the big three filled in for me. Actually, I should probably mention Fanon, as well. Nobody really connected for me that almost all those ebil communist revolutions were colonized people rising up against the colonizers. Watching Morales get coup-ed in real time (by a neo-nazi, with Ainez unleashing the military on people) shook something loose, but the Jakarta Method really hammered it home for me; That it was worker uprisings, indigenous people trying not to be fucking slaves. Every history class I ever took hid that shit through abstractions of Great Man Theory, Manifest Destiny, and pure bullshit propaganda. It's a fucking Class War; The Capitalists against the Communists. Nazi and Nazi-adjacent footsoldiers against the People.
Those reasons are pretty much the same for me as well, but also I've come to realize that China realistically is the best long term hope for humanity getting rid of capitalism and solving climate change.
From my own experience, it's a combination of becoming much more aware of the consent manufacturing machine and learning much more about what the US has been and is doing across the globe. Parenti, The Jakarta Method, and Blowback are probably the big three for me.
We love blowback, don't we folks!
With the assistance of a couple of documentaries, Blowback completely transformed how I view the DPRK, and made me even more impressed by Cuba.
Yeah the DPRK stuff was really eye opening. The Juche gang must be given support
Cuba tho, my god, I knew the story (had a based teacher in HS who taught us about decolonization and the Cuba unit was awesome), but the Blowback presentation...
This was what I was missing that the big three filled in for me. Actually, I should probably mention Fanon, as well. Nobody really connected for me that almost all those ebil communist revolutions were colonized people rising up against the colonizers. Watching Morales get coup-ed in real time (by a neo-nazi, with Ainez unleashing the military on people) shook something loose, but the Jakarta Method really hammered it home for me; That it was worker uprisings, indigenous people trying not to be fucking slaves. Every history class I ever took hid that shit through abstractions of Great Man Theory, Manifest Destiny, and pure bullshit propaganda. It's a fucking Class War; The Capitalists against the Communists. Nazi and Nazi-adjacent footsoldiers against the People.
Those reasons are pretty much the same for me as well, but also I've come to realize that China realistically is the best long term hope for humanity getting rid of capitalism and solving climate change.
Yeah, absolutely.