askchapo

I grew up doing animal rescue. Before I was consciously political, maybe around age 6~, seeing the complex cognition in other species gave me a naive sense of biocentrism and species-being that were immediately radical. Most of my current eco-Marxism was already there intuitively. Then 9/11 happened and the flagfucking culture in its aftermath was so weird to me that I was opposed to anything nationalistic or racist. At age 12~ I read the Communist Manifesto while trying to find a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook and it made more sense than anything else I had read about social studies to that point. That's when I began identifying as a socialist, even if it took until maybe age 20 before I started reading theory seriously.