People have their entire world constructed on premises that are false - false history, false understanding of capitalism, false understanding of socialsim. So you have to spend a lot of, lot of time dismantling these, bringing light to new information, and overcoming all of the resistance people naturally have, especially as they get a bit older (read jsut grow up and become adults). Then there is also dismantling really culturally entrenched ideas and narratives formed by a lot of popular media. Especially among people who listen to Joe Rogan, think they're reasonable centrists and think the left is feminist sjws with colorful hair. Like you have to dismantle these again and again and again and again, expose them again and again to leftist media, surprise them a lot when you trash libs, or just point them towards something historical they had no idea about.
Recently I had a very long conversation with someone, who unironically and uncritically claimed that things like weekends, 8-hour working day and social programs exist because of capitalism, not despite it. Of course he was completely and utterly ignorant of worker rights history, and someone who's only experience with the left is what they get from the internet (read mostly righ-wing stuff) and from the memory of the totalitarian socialist regime from before 1989.
And a note on this last one - I had a very hard time overcoming my distaste of socialism. I myself went through a huge culture shock, when I moved to a new country, when there were posters for the 1st of May with obvious communist imagery, and the event had thousands upon thousands of people, red flags hammers and sickles everywhere. ...
People have their entire world constructed on premises that are false - false history, false understanding of capitalism, false understanding of socialsim. So you have to spend a lot of, lot of time dismantling these, bringing light to new information, and overcoming all of the resistance people naturally have, especially as they get a bit older (read jsut grow up and become adults). Then there is also dismantling really culturally entrenched ideas and narratives formed by a lot of popular media. Especially among people who listen to Joe Rogan, think they're reasonable centrists and think the left is feminist sjws with colorful hair. Like you have to dismantle these again and again and again and again, expose them again and again to leftist media, surprise them a lot when you trash libs, or just point them towards something historical they had no idea about.
Recently I had a very long conversation with someone, who unironically and uncritically claimed that things like weekends, 8-hour working day and social programs exist because of capitalism, not despite it. Of course he was completely and utterly ignorant of worker rights history, and someone who's only experience with the left is what they get from the internet (read mostly righ-wing stuff) and from the memory of the totalitarian socialist regime from before 1989.
And a note on this last one - I had a very hard time overcoming my distaste of socialism. I myself went through a huge culture shock, when I moved to a new country, when there were posters for the 1st of May with obvious communist imagery, and the event had thousands upon thousands of people, red flags hammers and sickles everywhere. ...
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