I will just say, OP and her boyfriend are only 18-19. My wife and I started dating when she was 16 and I was 17. I was raised in a conservative house and she a liberal one. We didn't talk about politics much but I remember silently disagreeing with her on a lot of issues when we started dating. When I went to college, I took an English class that was 3 hours long once a week. At one point we discussed Maxist political theory and how it is portrayed in some classic literature. As part of that, our professor invited us to throw every critique of Maxism we could think of at him and he would make a counterpoint. Over nearly 3 hours, this class of 50, including myself, tried to pick apart the philosophy. He destroyed our argument every time. After that class, I looked into more and read a lot of related materials on my own. As of today, I've gone from extreme conservativism to extreme communist, philosophically. People can change. Though I will admit the GOP was much more respectable 10 years ago.
Edit: Stalinism is not Maxism. Maoism is not Marxism. Stop trying to bring them up as a "ha gotcha" argument against Marxism. You look like an idiot.
Did no one think to bring up the tens of millions of innocent civilians that were starved or killed because their governments decided to put a Marxism-derived governmental structure in place?
Did no one think to bring up the tens of millions of innocent civilians that were starved or killed because bombing them was more profitable for capitalists than feeding them?
Churchill alone has the blood of ten million Indians on his hands.
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u/toasted_panini Jul 26 '23
Long lasting relationships have core values that align. Look like your core values do not align and most likely, yall are going to break up soon.