Wage Labor and Capital was one of the biggest things for me. It's massively underrated and can explain the world simply enough for a child and deeply enough that other Marxist theory makes sense. If you can get people to engage with that pamphlet there's a good change they might start their own radicalization.

I started identifying as a socialist around 12-13 when I read the Communist Manifesto and its framing made more sense than rich/middle class/poor. Being a history nerd though, historical materialism and later dialectics were the big breakthrough for me. They meshed with how I saw the world scientifically, a dynamic process of contextual relationships influencing each other.

Once I had a working grasp of dialectics, going back to anything short of it would be like attending preschool as an adult.

Grew up in a bubble with nothing but conservativism surrounding me. I was always libby, never really conservative though. Eventually, I was exposed to people and ideas from outside that bubble, speaking with people gave me new perspective. Eventually, I grew to learn more about Leftism, and reading Marx and the gang has solidified me as a Marxist.

Making a 13 year old read "The O'Reilly Factor for kids" and watching his program with my parents every night from about Sept. 12th 2001 until about sometime in 2006.

I pinpoint me pivoting away from right wing ideologies about the time I read that book. Any such thing as like Anti-theory, I guess? Especially as those right wing ideologies became more and more incompatible with the same morals that my Conservative parents wanted to instill in me.

"I cannot be the sort of good person I was raised to be under capitalism and the current systems of powers that exist"

Everything sprouted from there moving further and further left until I hit my current stage of "Trans Anarcho-Communist" or whatever.

i live in a country run by landlords and honestly the old /r/cth sub opened my eyes to a lot of the wild contradictions around rent, etc. and made me see that a situation like this can't be fixed by liberal reforms. Since then I personally have come to think that making people see the hypocrisies, contradictions, and the true evils of liberalism, dispelling people's misconceptions that it's somehow the default, good option and making them lose all faith in the dominant ideology is crucial and it's ideal to radicalise people early along these lines. from there, for young people especially, unless their vision is clouded by something like generational wealth, they likely know the struggle to some extent and the path to the immortal science should start to become relatively clear.

I guessing the people who had to find leftism are white because the rest of the world sort of just grew up with the people around them being comrades

It turns out, I can’t reconcile that I hate Americans while simultaneously aligning with Americans conservatism and libertarianism just because we share a few opinions as they stand against everything else I believe in otherwise

Being gay and then trans and then autistic and then asexual was a really good recipe honestly. I was thinking to the left as soon as I was dealing with medications and gatekeeping therapy, and every subsequent thing pushed me further left. Always hated the church.

But also just reading about shit like paperclip, condor and mkultra, how could anyone think the West is good?

I've worked retail and food service with shitty bosses and shitty customers, lived in shitty apartments with shitty landlords, and paid way too much for shitty food, shitty cars, and shitty Obamacare insurance.

The inability or unwillingness of liberals to actually oppose Trump in any meaningful way was what finally prompted me to seriously look into socialism.

when i started paying attention to politics, it was because i was an election nerd, so i supported the liberal democrats for their support for proportional representation

then covid leftpilled me. we need another global pandemic

I started somewhat conversative-ish and just went further left the older I got (except for that brief period I went from lib to enlightened centrist) until I landed at communism. It also helps that I am a minority where I live (racial/ethnic, sexuality, neurodiverse) and despite doing everything right, all I got was autistic burnout and having to work twice as hard for half as much. Meanwhile, some idiot rich fuck classmate who never worked a day in their life just coasted by and got everything handed to them on a silver platter.

Be raised in liberal family -> become transgender -> look at a lot of communist and anarchist memes -> read communist books

Tada...