I grew up in a household where my father since his college days was pretty much influenced by communism , due to which the time I was growing up , I had a lot of marxist , leninist literature at home , and there were few ussr imported books about communist ideologies ! Few other of my family members are quite communist as well ! So anyone else has similar background ?
My dad was a committed communist in his youth to the point that he was prepared to die for the revolutionary cause, but he ended up becoming a socdem. Even so, I at least got the sense growing up that communism wasn’t evil because I knew my dad wouldn’t have supported something evil (and he never spoke of it as such), and I inherited his mistrust of received wisdom which primed me to ask the right questions.
if im not mistaken our dear comrade @kristina@hexbear.net has a really based grandma and aunt* who lived during the soviet union in the Czech SSR, her aunt/* was a total badass who helped the resistance fight off the nazi hordes in guerilla warfare by using IEDs at age 80/*, absolute legend
Edit: historical accuracy!
so my grandma was too young for fighting in WW2, i had a relative, iirc my grandma’s aunt, who was 80 something and used her cover as an elderly old lady to plant IEDs, her name was kristina :)
my grandma was a pretty high ranking member of our regional communist party and did agricultural union work mostly but before that she worked at a factory as a low level union steward creating munitions for the vietnamese in the vietnam war
unfortunately my parents are feckless libs with the occasional based idea
i had a relative, iirc my grandma’s aunt, who was 80 something and used her cover as an elderly old lady to plant IEDs, her name was kristina :)
Badass covert operations antifa supersoldier, fighting the literal Nazis at age 80 is unbelievably courageous. Deserves an Order of Lenin fr
she worked at a factory as a low level union steward creating munitions for the vietnamese in the vietnam war
You have the most based relatives, thank you for your service, Kristinas grandma
unfortunately my parents are feckless libs with the occasional based idea
Nevertheless, your ancestors are smiling down on you for continuing their legacy
honestly kristina went through so much in her life that its kinda mind boggling. our family had our whole village occupied by the german military at least 3 times in her life time, including during her formative years as a kid. had many men in our family get ruthlessly conscripted into austrian and prussian militaries against their will and dying in some far off place. its no wonder she was ready to kill some germans
Dad was some kind of fellow traveler in his youth, but I think forgot some important lessons about critical media consumption as he got older. Went from reading black panther lit and the monthly review to pretty uncritically watching shit like msnbc, etc.
I think he sort of just thinks the dems really do mean well and are doing the best they can now. Just a casualty of the end of history maybe. It’s weird though because he will occasionally concede that I’m right on certain fundamental things when we inevitably argue about politics. He’s maybe just really lowered his expectations over the years.
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