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.

  • 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