https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1326969135826427906

  • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Those are all reasons not to limit ourselves to social reforms, none of them come close to saying that there's no point doing them in the first place

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              • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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                4 years ago

                I don't know or care if AOC is a socialist, and why would that mean I'm not allowed to support her when she wants to improve people's lives? What is this definition of "support" where it means you have to adopt someone's entire worldview and follow them to your dying breath

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                  • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    So are you just arguing for accelerationism then? I think it's good if people have housing and healthcare rather than dying, and maybe even some of those people, partially freed from some of the burdens of life under capitalism, will be more likely to develop a class consciousness.

                    edit: and when it comes to "siphoning revolutionary energy," I've seen plenty of cases of people who were brought into politics as social democrats by Bernie and AOC becoming full socialists, but not even one full socialist who was convinced by Bernie or AOC that actually we can just do reforms and that's fine.