Yup… bottom line reading something critically, expecting it to be what everyone told you it was… and paying attention to discover it as the opposite.
In some cases something you thought was profound, turns out to be bullshit, fluff or just horrific.
Or in other cases something you thought was nonsense… turns out to be right about everything, down to it’s predictions of the horrible directions capitalism/imperealism would lead to, looking around and going, shit he predicted it almost perfectly.
People who read communist theory become communists for the same reason that people who read the bible critically become atheists.
Yup… bottom line reading something critically, expecting it to be what everyone told you it was… and paying attention to discover it as the opposite.
In some cases something you thought was profound, turns out to be bullshit, fluff or just horrific.
Or in other cases something you thought was nonsense… turns out to be right about everything, down to it’s predictions of the horrible directions capitalism/imperealism would lead to, looking around and going, shit he predicted it almost perfectly.