Your fallacious description of people’s process towards becoming Marxist Leninists as being the same sort of way that poor, ignorant, emotionally needy people latch onto a cult, is ridiculous, and the kind of things liberals like to say of all of us on the anticapitalist left to comfort themselves into maintaining their simplistic “I’m right but they’re wrong” worldview and avoid having to engage with the many real reasons people become anticapitalists.

Did I touch a nerve or something? Did I too accurately describe your origin story?

Don’t be like the liberals.

Oh, of course not. I am a liberal. Proudly. And I don’t mean the kind of wishy-washy liberal that American center-left calls themselves, but the real thing.

No one is born into Marxism Leninism, anarchism, or any other ideology, and saying that is a grotesquely anti-anarchist thing to say.

That’s naive. Of course people who are born in China will be indoctronated more into the chinese version of communism versus any other ideology. And people who are born in America will be indoctronated into a slightly different direction by default. I’m talking about the masses, not the 1% or whatever who decide about these things mostly for themselves.