Hey all, I’m hoping this is the right comm for this kind of post. I’m really interested what brought my fellow lemmings to anarchism (or just radical politics in general). Was is a youtube video? A book? A conversation IRL or on the internet? For me personally it was a friend IRL who introduced me to an local anarchist collective.
For me it was a combination of the BLM protests in 2020, finding real life examples of anarchism through HOI4 with the Spanish Civil War, watching “Living in Utopia”, and reading At the Cafe by Errico Malatesta.
Prior to that though I started off as a very uneducated 14 year old self identifying as Trotskyist. And I really just became a communist because I cared a lot about fairness, and I didn’t think a system where there is an owning class and a working class was fair. And because originally my only knowledge of communism was a freshman understanding of the Russian Revolution, between Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. I picked Trotsky cause I liked his emphasis on international revolution, and at the time I thought he was the most democratic. Then slowly I became more libertarian socialist as I learned about other Marxist ideologies like Council Communism and Luxemburgism.
The BLM protests really pushed me to the conclusion of abolishing the police, and that laid the foundation for everything else that came after to build off of for me becoming an anarchist