man what am I doing with my life. I could be making so much money by rolling my face on the keyboard and calling myself an "Opinion Columnist"
Dems.
stop.
calling.
socialism.
bad.
Own it you mother fuckers or you'll end up as obsolete as the rest of them.
Whatever amount of passion and declamation might be employed by the party of Order against the minority from the tribune of the National Assembly, its speech remained as monosyllabic as that of the Christians, whose words were to be: Yea, yea; nay, nay! As monosyllabic on the platform as in the press. Flat as a riddle whose answer is known in advance. Whether it was a question of the right of petition or the tax on wine, freedom of the press or free trade, the clubs or the municipal charter, protection of personal liberty or regulation of the state budget, the watchword constantly recurs, the theme remains always the same, the verdict is ever ready and invariably reads: “Socialism!” Even bourgeois liberalism is declared socialistic, bourgeois enlightenment socialistic, bourgeois financial reform socialistic. It was socialistic to build a railway where a canal already existed, and it was socialistic to defend oneself with a cane when one was attacked with a rapier.
The eighteenth brumaire is so dank
Fucking fire quote
Now just remember - this passage did not carry the weight it does now, for most people, just thirty years ago. I think it's important to ask what changed and why capital is once again so anxious to appropriate our terminology.
the Red scare was such a good anti-communist propaganda campaign the common US person just thinks socialism=bad
Yeah but that's changing. If the scales tilt too far, by 2024 you'll have every neolib presidential candidate identifying themselves as a "socialist" in one way or another. It's not that hard. Elon Musk already blazed that trail.
