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.
And yet you don't need the same to defend capitalism. Curious.
Don't defend socialist history, dismiss them as attacks and point towards the scientific fact that socialist countries provide a better quality of life than capitalist ones.
Thread with references: https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1528326657500758016
The entire point of attacking you with the entire history of socialism is to do gish gallop as a tactic of overwhelming you with things to refute. Don't bother even entertaining that behaviour.