Short answer: entire year unemployed, then working in healthcare delivering things to folks that had even less than I have.

It appears the Challenger 2… wasn’t up to the challenge. Heh.

A mix of unemployment through an entire year (2013), already having similar personal standards, and my aunt marrying a Russian (ironically, he’s now far-right) who said he missed the USSR and how life was there. Also, one of my former bosses gave me a copy of The Communist Manifesto and I liked it. Then I read the first The Capital volume. I suppose it was a gradual proccess and somewhat instinctive in my case - I basically figured out Communism is, logically, the best possible system for people like me.

It’s why, before the world Left got defanged, Communists just used to help those people answer the ages-old question: “Is there a god?” - if you know what I mean.

Now a lot of people who call themselves communists or socialists want to do things ‘right’, even if it means being nothing more than doomed moral victors and this allowed the rise of these people.