henlo,

[poly-styrene]

echo/18/trans woman
from rural northwest mn, ties to the bay area and most likely relocating there
where i am now is not a hotbed of leftist activity, but to my memory the bay area had a more left-ward political climate than rural nw mn, but i haven't been for 5 years now.
became a leftist when i was 11, read lenin's 'the state and revolution' and from there learned about marx and engels, as well as revisionists like kautsky. lenin's polemic against kautsky and others' revisionisms of the revolutionary core of marxism (ie electoral legal leftism), his conception of the state as the monopoly on violence and an instrument of class repression, and call for revolution as opposed to reform, thus had an early impact on me.
i realised i was trans when i was 14, came out when i was 15, started hormones when i was 16.
to quote a comrade, my feminism is marxist, and my marxism is feminist. the liberation of women is impossible without the liberation of the working class, and the liberation of the working class is impossible without the liberation of women.
i am also autistic and have borderline personality disorder, but coming to an understanding of my disability, let alone disability generally, has been more of a challenge than coming to an understanding of gender (though that was difficult, painful and long), thanks in no small part due to the proliferation of the bourgeois ideology in psychology and medicine generally.
i hate the bourgeois ideology with a passion.
i hope to have a good time here on revleft -w-

[Gavrilo93]

Hello, and welcome to the forum.