Just to clarify, Im talking about my face to face interactions with people. I know social democracy is imperialist, unworkable, and doomed to fail. But I have trouble articulating why socialism is the only way forward. I can point out all the problems with capitalism, though.

There’s too much baggage associated with the S word; people immediately point to 100 billion dead vuvuzela. If I had to think of the biggest stumbling block to convincing people, it’s the controversial history associated with socialism. And I just don’t know enough about each individual “atrocity” and “failure” that happened in order to debunk it all. I feel like in order to convince anyone, you have to know basically the entire history of every socialist country by memory. And if I cared enough I could probably learn, but then I give into my pessimism and think “what’s the point? The people are too propagandized to convert.”

Probably the wrong comm to post in, but I give up trying to think of the right one to mark this as.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    If you get this kind of stuff from chuds, you can hit back with "well, that's what the liberal mainstream media would have you believe".

    Does not work on Trust The Process libs though.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Conservatives were (kinda) right about the liberal media (and guns) all along.

      • Dangitbobby [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."

        -- headline and first paragraph of column by New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent, July 25, 2004

        http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html