Why was my great grandfather a communist?

So, as you can see from my family tree, my maternal grandfather's father was a communist, among other things and I want to know why that was and what some of his thought processes may have been, he even fought in:
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street
Please excuse the typos, I haven't gotten around to correcting them yet.

The corrections:
>He was TA in WW2, regular army (probably East Surrey Regiment) in Mandatory Palestine.
>*become = became
>*profess = professor
>*From to a = From a
>*dockery = docker

My dad was a Communist, too (a Trotsykist, to be precise) though he later warmed up to capitalism after becoming an economist. From my conversations with him, it seems he was motivated by a mix of youthful rebelliousness, a genuine desire to help the poor coupled with a lack of understanding of how markets work, and anger towards the injustices of the world. He was very active in the student communist group at his country's best university, and even was editor for their newspaper, but after he almost failed out of school for neglecting his coursework he shifted his focus to his major in econ (since he was too lazy to complete his engineering coursework) and eventually mellowed out.

I knew this board was fugged

Quite a lot of soldiers in WW1 later became communists, Henri Barbusse comes to my mind, he is basically French version of Remarque

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Those people mostly became communists because WW1 turned them into the pacifists and they saw WW1 as a war for money instead of war between The Eternal Kraut and White Civilization

Thank you for such a concise answer, I've always been curious. I just never got around to asking my grandfather about his father as he died when I was relatively young, seven. And I don't think my mother ever asked him anything about his father in that regard, just like we don't know much about his criminal activities.

That isn't far off the truth though.

>that image
Um...well...I really hope this isn't a LARP. I must say that if that image is true then you're one smart man (but your autism shows).

Anyways, your great grandfather was probably a communist because it looked like a solution to his struggles (like many communists during the time). He grew up in a working class family during the early 20th century, so I'm certain his parents nor his schools taught him anything notable about economics. No "official" communist state existed until the foundation of the Soviet Union in 1922, so it's not like your great grandfather was able to witness what a communist state would be like. I don't know when your great grandfather passed away, but he obviously lived through 14 years in which the USSR existed since you said he fought the Battle of Cable Street (1936). During those years he must have heard about how the Soviet Union was able to unify 15 countries (including the humongous Russia) "without" ethnic conflict and how the USSR was rapidly changing from a frozen, backwards, rural wasteland to an industrialized superpower.
Any propaganda spouted by the British capitalists probably didn't appeal to your great grandfather. Again, he grew up in a working class family and did not have much. To continue putting his trust in the rich monarchists and politicians seems like a silly idea. Why do that when you can have everyone equal and contributing to society?
The most notable thing about your great grandfather is that he served in WW1 and ended up with PTSD. He was probably very bitter after the war and wanted a better world for all (or at least Great Britain).

Most people who become communists want to seek out an utopian ideology which would create a perfect society and also have a zealous cause to fight for in life to have a purpose(being a communist in post WWII America and Europe) And so they fall for communism.

>he probably didn't understand economics
>i won't explain why communism isn't economically viable

Your grandfather was woke, is what.

Different country, but my great-grandfather was a communist too. He wasn't working-class by any means; he was born in the city, his father was an MP, and at the time industry was confined to the fisheries and spinning yarn. The biggest reason that he went communist was that he was groomed to take his father's seat, in a rather left-wing part of the country, and ended up hanging out with other young socialists, which ended up turning to communism with the rise of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. He then sent his sons to the USSR to study, which is the biggest reason my family today is staunchly capitalist.

TL;DR The local community was altready left-leaning, and the Soviet Union made leftists turn to communism as an example of a successful socialist country.

A lot of my grandfather's relatives were communist because they were coal miners in the 1920s. One made a grandfather clock that stands in our living room today. We call it the commie clock. It doesn't work anymore.

>A lot of my grandfather's relatives were communist because they were coal miners in the 1920s

All my ancestors from that period and just before were too but they weren't anti culture,counter rights,godless traitors

imagine being THIS much of a bootlicking cuck

Same. Grandfather became a communist after a kike loanshark put his family on the street when he was a kid, hated Jews more than the plague until he died.

Thank you, I honestly think this is the most accurate post thus far. I honestly think this may have been his mindset.

Whoa, that repetition, I do apologize. I usually try and censor out same-words in one piece of text. At least I avoided the dreaded beast of tautology.

Also, out of interest, how exactly does my autism manifest to the observer? I obviously can never observe myself and thus must rely upon the observations of others.

My grandfather was a Democratic Socialist Union Leader.

He died in the 80s, but I have a feeling he wouldn't like the modern leftwing situation with faggotry, hate speech laws and multicultural paradise policies.

His grandson became a reactionary instead.

I always wonder what the greatest generation would make of today if they weren't mostly either senile or dead.

It is kind of awkward when most old people still hate "the German invaders", but have become bittered to the point where 90% of their ideas overlap with natsoc.

What if it wisdom, not bitterness?

Why is it strange to brainlets that many people put their nation before ideological bullshit.

I’m pretty sure that in 99% of loan shark related problems, the solution is not to borrow money in the first place.

This is now an ancestry thread.

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Over 9000 hours in paint.

>inb4 shitskin

I've heard it all guys

are genes more recessive if they havent been hammered in to multiple iterations of generation mutations? like your hair colour from your mum for example, fathers side isnt solidly repeated thus recessive?

i come from like pure aryan prussian and english stock and before that french, all nobility/upper strata. then im born into an outlier generation (maybe) and its hard to rewrite natural instinct when the nurture doesnt align to what the previous generations were gifted

I'll be honest most of those hair colours are artistic approximations, by the time I knew most of my relatives they had all gone grey. I'm just guessing their hair colours based on old photos and from what my younger relatives look like.

Also, my brother has my dad's hair colour, so I wouldn't say it's entirely recessive. It's just I happened to get my mother's genes, while my brother god my father's.

Could've added more info and detail, but wasn't feeling for it

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>tfw both of my grandparents were in the party

Never talked about it, though. I assume one did so because WW2 and the second needed to support his family since his father died when he was little.

aryan as fuck/10
im this guy btw

>aspergers
Explains why there's not a single real flag in the image. Also probably answers your question.

:0!

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>mfw grandpa threw gook commies from a UH-1 when he was in Vietnam

Inbred/ 10

ur poor gramps

tell him to smoke weed it helps with the ptsd and shit (virtually/basically everything else he could ever possibly have from war)

indicas good for the body, sativa the mind.

Must have been fun coming back home to get spit on and despised by an entire generation

You mean patriots fighting to free their country from being an American puppet state. And your grandpa is a loser and probably a baby rapist too :D

Your grandmothers are based

Also, you have no right to judge your mother for speaking broken Portugueae because you also speak broken """portuguese"""

this, also Ernst Thaelmann

I only know four things about my great grandfather

1. He was a village butcher
2. He was conscripted into the German army and stuck in WWI, fighting at the Somme as a machine gunner
3. He was wounded 6 times and had to run from his gunner position twice during the war.
4. The only lesson he left to "the family" was that God, the government, and society doesn't give a damn about you, look out for yourself and spit on the bullshit they try to feed you.

So you're basically a Lebanese living in Brazil? You're not even a mongrel porkchop but a mudslime living in Brazil. kys

Haha your grandpa was a war criminal and his PTSD must've made his family live an unending hell. That's shore is funny now.

Both my grandfathers were communists.
I think i understand their reasoning. They were born into an agrarian, until recently feudal society. They firmly believe that, had it not been for the communist party, they would have spent their lives subsistence farming. It seemed like social mobility existed only in the capital, and a handful of important cities. Instead they became an accountant and an engineer.
The engineer's uncle was executed by the Germans, and his uncle's courage and belief in a "better world" fueled his devotion.
The accountant hated his father all his life. His devotion to communism was in large part being contrarian to his father. He still thinks my political beliefs are a product of great grandpa "corrupting me", the man died in 2003 for fuck's sake, i was barely interested in politics back then.

>your great great great grandpa was on the losing side of the civil war

now thats comedy

I know this about my grand father:

his mother was a junkie whore
for shots of spirits

he got fucked up and joined & identified with the state aparatus
and they abused him, nastily, the nastiest stuff they had

Not just breaking white communist newspresses. They nasty stuff.

So he became an alcoholic wife abuser. And decided to start dying in 1978.

When he was young, my dad joined the communist party here and hung out with wannabe revolutionary maoist groups. Since he’s a pretty conservative, center right catholic guy nowadays, that always surprised me. I was wondering what made him change his mind, what influenced him.

So I asked him: turns out he only did it for girls and the apparently great parties.

Chilean?

>le battle of meme street
>also a gangster

Well done, your great-grandad was human trash who fed on his own class while blowing smoke up their arses.

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>wanting to be a huehue mixmonkey and not giving in entirely to your sand heritage

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I have never ONCE looked into my great grandparents or further, and only know vague things about my grandfathers

wow really nicely done

What’s stopping you?

BECAUSE HE IS FUCKING IRISH.
All they can wank about is Gallowglass and Viking kicking which is pretty cool

My father was also a commie (stalinist) in his youth. More of a larper than anything imo. He met the che in cuba, told me he seemed too violent. After studying in france he became a social democrat.
One of my great uncles (mother side) was an anarchist journalist and fought for the spanish republicans. He has a street in his name somewhere in my city.
My only aunt (mother side) was killed by the state because his boyfriend was part of a communist guerilla. The case was later relevant to local and international politics.
Despite this, my mother is center-right.

commies burned the customs house during our civil war and we lost centuries of documentation

There are probably tons of churchs records, at least.

au druze

>tfw the only flag I recognise is Normandy
>and I’m not even really sure

the blue and red is the Paris one, the yellow background w/ black lion is a part from belgium I think
all the maternal side is english

Thank you, here's the template if you want to do your own !

Sorry, I should have added a key. As the other user said, red and blue is Paris. The lion on yellow field is Nord-Pas-de-Calais, based on the arms of Flanders. The red band with three eagles on yellow field is Lorraine. The two lions are indeed Normandie, the other maternal flag is Burgundy. The last two paternal flags are Pennsylvania and New York. And if you're wondering, the cross for the American side is Presbyterian.

I think my great-grandfather might have been a Jew. He left Germany only a few years after the Beer Hall Putsch.

>deadbeat father not around entire life
Kek youre nigger-tier.
I dont know why he was communist but if he's your forefather that automatically makes you a degenerate sub-human.

Same for any here with any kike ancestry.

>ooga booga

>mfw my grandfather was a drunk who smuggled weapons to the IRA

Classcuck scum

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Your grandpa was a good person and more of a man than you'll ever be.

*tips hormones

>ahah those damn leftist trannies am I right

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Get a fucking job you waste of space.

someone got triggered lol