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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Socialists in america need to reject the term progressive. It's used in order to claim socialists as their own, as "progressive liberals" instead of as what they really are, opposition to liberals. The whole "progressive" thing is used to erase socialists and keep it buried enough that people do not become politically educated about the differences.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Agreed. Its too vague. We don't have time left to mince words.

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm barely reading the comment without snoring. I bet its well written, but I could care less to learn about what a "progressive" is and I have no context to understand when people talk about them. Also, after I stopped being liberal it took me like 2 years to learn what a SocDem is. Both are a dumb mincing of words, and they're both highly effective ways of confusing people who desperately need to learn to abandon liberalism altogether.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just say youre a communist. Even if you're an anarchist tell people you're a communist. When I was younger and an anarchist I still called myself a communist when speaking to strangers or co workers or whatever when politics came up because i had found that if you call yourself an anarchist you get immediate dismissal, if you call yourself a socialist you get treated like a liberal. If you call yourself a communist you get curiosity and a conversation. People want to know why you're a communist.

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe that works as long as your good at explaining yourself at length.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you're gonna have a radical political ideology that's probably a good thing to practice

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I get what you mean. For me it's a fairly private soul searching and an aid in my spirituality. Understanding more about what an all loving world needs to exist. It helps me think about how people should be treated more kindly in certain ways. I'd always felt people are completely worthy in general, and now I think I'm also worthy in ways I hadn't known. I'm more perceptive to self worth.

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