chapotraphouse

I have been hearing this sentiment over the past three election cycles but let’s be honest, we went from single-payer healthcare being on the table to getting zero concession over a global pandemic to literally silence over any healthcare related agenda through the years.

The fact is that even if 99% of the people support socialism, there is no left wing movement in America to transform these sentiment into actual political movement.

Despite all the talks about third party socialist movements, I literally have no idea what their strategies are to take political power at the heart of global imperialism. Where is the analysis of the principal contradictions of American capitalism? Where are your concrete strategies to take power beyond milquetoast anti-war protests? How are you going to leverage these contradictions to achieve your political goals (real, not imagined/fantasized)?

If the American left cannot answer these questions, there will not be any movement so any kind of leftist rhetoric is going to be useless. Propaganda needs to work side by side with political actions, not in the absence of it.

The only good thing about republicans in charge is that it’s open season for radicalizing libs.

I have a couple accounts for trolling and this is what I do. Any time there’s a major fuckup, I try to say something along the lines of “maybe the rich were lying when they said lgbt people are the problem.”

People saying communism has never worked while china exists and is owning everyone makes me feel a certain way

Tried to post parenti in that thread to combat pretty typical left anticommunism from an anarcho syndicalist and it didnt let me post 😭😭😭 i typed that shit up by hand from blackshirts and reds

Really unexpected top comments too, lemmy.world and the like have officially outfashed

Some will get radicalized and peel away every time liberalism eats shit, but the empire has further qualitative phases of decay to go through before mass defections from settlerism becomes realistic

The way that this post is word, it makes me think a committed comrade wrote it pretending to be a questioning liberal. Good on them either way, we could probably do pretending to be liberals who are "just now" questioning capitalism.

In terms of public sentiment I am pretty positive. Communism is becoming less and less of an effective Boogeyman each cycle and while GenZ does seem like a problem due to its reactionary gender/race identity politics I actually think there's reason to believe class based approach would gain some significant ground.

Here's the problem and why I remain not super enthusiastic and bordering on doomer: The last few election cycles have really showed that there are zero shortcuts here. The democratic party will straight up nuke itself before it allows an economically populist left movement take it over. If they didn't show that in 2016 or 2020 they hella fucking showed that in 2024.

People may broadly be coming around to like the idea of socialism and communism...but I think most of those people probably still in the mindset that we need to run leftwing candidates and vote our way to socialism.

Maybe we'll get there eventually...but I think we are a long way from people being ready to actually do direct action...and it's clear to me that's what its gonna take.

Between 1790 and 1920, every monarchy said democracy and republics were failures and paths to dictatorship, until all the monarchies collapsed or were reformed into bourgeois democracies. I think by 2047 something very similar will happen with bourgeois democracies and communism.

I'm not reading the thread but being in favor of communism works in theory, but in practice (lol) all these settlers will actually lose their quality of life if we were to have a revolution since we would have to dismantle imperialism and the benefits it provides. Few westerners are going to accept that, and so they will choose the treat button 9/10 times. Revolution happens in places where they have nothing to lose but their chains, but losing brunch and U2 at the Vegas sphere is not gonna fly

Nah. Libs were saying this kinda shit the first Trump term and then the day Biden was elected they went full hog back into capitalist defense

Eh, Libs have been saying this shit since 2018, they don't ever end up doing shit.

I shouldn't look. I just want to throw books at these people. Read This Soviet World, Soviet Democracy, Russian Justice. Read Blackshirts and reds. Read cowbees Marxism intro

I see antiwork is starting to realize they need to be more... antiwork.

You see, its like an onion...