I’m at such an intersection of privilege that I don’t think I considered politics in any meaningful way until my early 20s when I got hit with the libertarian propaganda and realized that maybe the police and army are political actually.
I always hear of people doing such great work and being so political in their teenage years ago I wonder if it’s more common for someone to not engage in politics until adulthood line myself or if it’s truly just my position in life that allowed me to be ignorant for so long.
I remember buying a shirt with “fuck politics I just want to burn shit down” when I was around 17 and honestly edginess was I think my entire ideology at the time
“I’ve got a golden tiickeetttt”
Yeah, not to do a big “i wuz a commie b4 u” thing, because i did not take that assignment as seriously as i should have. I was still a dumb teenager that couldn’t care less about school. But, it did force me to actually read theory. Before that i was like “Castro is cool because he has a beard, smokes cigars, and Cuba is cool”. Afterwards, i still went lib, but at least i was a “Castro and Lenin are cool, but Stalin and Mao are bad guys” lib. Eventually i also had to self-reflect on why i held those opinions, because as far as i know, i never actually bothered to look up what they did, just repeated what everyone else said.
Yeah growing up I always wondered why people would say “you know mao killed more people than hitler” but still hitler was the one held up as uniquely evil.
Typing that out I can see the path i didn’t take and I’m grateful
I remember being in college and seeing this bad boy
I wore one of those ‘che guevara hats’ (I don’t know the real name) with the red star and everything but just because it drew attention
A beret?
Yeah, i usually just wear trucker hats with whatever emblem i feel like having. Been rocking a hat with the palestinian flag for a while.