It’s helpful that you said not to emotionally invest into ideas because that pushes back on the way I have been processing political ideas. Since I’ve very active in socialist circles, I’ve emotionally invested in it a lot more than I’ve actually done research. One concept that helped me feel better about this is praxis, which from my understanding is the concept of acting in conjunction with learning. I will work on taking out some of my emotional investment, mostly if it includes absolute ideas of good and evil rather than analysis

I know right 😬😬😬 Sorry. I am thankful for the people who put in the effort to answer my question, and I am feeling encouraged to be a member of this community

Thank you. That helps a lot and you did an excellent job of explaining things and organizing your response in a way that was easy to follow

Thank you for your response. I feel embarrassed by the oppositional way that I worded my question, and grateful for the volume and quality of responses from people in this community. I am reading their comments and following links, and I will do more research on prolewiki. I am part of a socialist group where I live, and I am reading through introductory works by Marx and others at the moment.

What I really appreciate about this experience is that I was not silenced or ignored, though some degree of that would have been warranted, but rather that I was met with educated responses and open dialogue

I apologize for the way I asked my question, and I appreciate that so many of you took the time to respond. I am thoroughly reading your responses, and I will ask better questions in the future