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.
Ehhh the russia issue is pretty much impossible to talk to people about. I mean, my opinion on the issue is of course no war but class war, but even talking about how NATO continually provoked Russia and crossed established red lines constantly and refused to take a step back is met with indignation. I mean, I tried it once, and never tried it again because it shut down the entire conversation. People also literally hate Russian people here, it's insanity.
I frame it as the long war is causeing food and gas prices to rise. I know very few people who care more about NATO and foreign treaties than they do their own family eating