For former socialists, there’s one argument I see them use for why they are not socialist anymore.
That argument is that they felt guilty about wanting to push their ideology onto others and so they started believing in parliamentary politics again where every opinion is valuable. My dad who used to be an anarchist as a teenager used this reasoning, as well as one of my teachers.
But this argument doesn’t make sense to me, because it makes politics into something which only revolves around opinions, while we communists and the capitalist class know it’s about power.
I feel like these people never learned much about their ideology when they were socialists. I think I will never stop being a communist, I know too much.
Have you seen this reasoning yourself?
I hate that this used to be me in my old Reddit days years ago.
We all have to start somewhere, the key part is to be able to do self reflection and to grow. The time I’ll start worrying is when I look back and don’t find my old self cringe. :)
Yep, absolutely! I try to atone for my sins by trying to rectify mistakes my past self made in others.
O7