User:Wisconcom/My political development

For much of my childhood, I was subjected to the indoctrination of my parents into their rightist, nationalistic beliefs, although I largely remained apolitical. I first truly embarked on a political journey around the time of the racist murder of George Floyd in 2020 and COVID-19 pandemic.

I looked into right-wing libertarianism, but was quickly repulsed by their anti-working class attitudes and servility to the wealthy. I then drifted to left-leaning forms of anarchism and eventually became an anarcho-communist. It was my becoming an anarcho-communist that I first started to think of myself as a communist and that had a major effect on me. This prompted me to look into the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

After coming to the realization that Marx and Engels were correct in their analysis and views, I became a Marxist and then soon after a Marxist–Leninist. It took me longer to become an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist and I maintained deviations from the ideologists I was exposed to. This manifested in me supporting the revisionist Soviet Union and the modern "AES" countries such as the DPRK and Cuba, though I never supported modern China as socialist.

I eventually discovered Enver Hoxha, and he remained an inspiration and person to look up to ever since. His works carried an ideological potency that few could rival. Reading his works inspired me to truly study the "classics" of Marxism like Stalin and Lenin.

There were some "road bumps" in my ideological journey. I harbored Maoist sympathies and eventually adopted Maoism for a brief period, though I continued to look up to Hoxha. It was after talking with comrades of the American Party of Labor that I was able to retract my Maoism and adopt the proper line of anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism.