User:Saula Wenger/My political development

I am a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist, principally Maoist. I uphold Marx, Engels Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Gonzalo as the foundational theorists of my tendency who contributed to what would become an excellent body to theory to which the modern proletariat uses as its weapon in class struggle.

I first began my political development from overhearing the conversations of my parents and eventually with their indoctrination of me into their conservatism. For many years of my childhood, I was an adherent of their reactionary ideology which endorsed the Republican Party and the neo-fascist Donald Trump.

Around 2020, my 13 year old self began to deviate from my parents' conservatism and to more left-wing tendencies. This was motivated by the large-scale unrest caused by the racist murder of George Floyd that same year. The unrest made me question the system at a fundamental level and wanted change.

I initially looked towards right-wing libertarianism as they held perhaps the largest third party in the United States political system, but found their anti-proletarian and petite bourgeois rhetoric repulsive and so looked towards anarchism. It was when I discovered anarcho-communism that I became seriously open to the notion of me being a communist, and I started thinking of myself in that way.

Shortly after, I started to study what Marxism truly was. Eventually, I became a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist. For a brief period between 2022–2024, I abandoned Maoism and adopted Hoxhaism as my tendency. However, after studying the works of Mao Zedong again in mid-2025, I reorientated myself around Maoism.