Maybe the solution is to just… stop saying its name?
If the ideas are extremely popular, but the terminology is extremely unpopular, the solution seems obvious. Cut it out with the scary Marxist words and express the ideas in less vilified language.
Liberalism tried that, it turns out it is just capitalism but with a few extra bonuses for the haves and a bit extra oppression for the have nots. It’s feel good capitalism. It’s also why people will argue about whether Nordic Capitalism is or isn’t Socialism. Just because they don’t call it socialism. But they have universal healthcare, progressive social rights, strong worker unions, universal free education. BUT, they don’t socialize the means of production, thus it is not socialism.
It turns out, that if a country historically gets rich enough from pillaging and plundering poorer countries, you can fake all the popular progressive policies without actually going into actual socialism. See also, Switzerland, or “never ask a Swiss bank how they got so rich”.
That’s been my approach with face to face conversations with some of my more right leaning (idiot) coworkers. Never, ever use the word “socialism”. It’ll scare em off. Describe its components and it’s amazing how much of of it they’re just on board with cuz it makes sense.
And that’s usually where I leave it… hopefully the seed takes root and they realize on their own later that all these awesome sounding things wrapped up into one package is socialism, but if it comes from me they’ll reject it immediately.
Tell em you heard Dump is becoming socialist by collecting money from everyone to support the Epstein class. Actually don’t use his name at first and say you heard politicians are starting a socialist movement to take everyone’s money and redistribute it to the people who own things so it can trickle down again.
Maybe the solution is to just… stop saying its name?
If the ideas are extremely popular, but the terminology is extremely unpopular, the solution seems obvious. Cut it out with the scary Marxist words and express the ideas in less vilified language.
Liberalism tried that, it turns out it is just capitalism but with a few extra bonuses for the haves and a bit extra oppression for the have nots. It’s feel good capitalism. It’s also why people will argue about whether Nordic Capitalism is or isn’t Socialism. Just because they don’t call it socialism. But they have universal healthcare, progressive social rights, strong worker unions, universal free education. BUT, they don’t socialize the means of production, thus it is not socialism.
It turns out, that if a country historically gets rich enough from pillaging and plundering poorer countries, you can fake all the popular progressive policies without actually going into actual socialism. See also, Switzerland, or “never ask a Swiss bank how they got so rich”.
That’s been my approach with face to face conversations with some of my more right leaning (idiot) coworkers. Never, ever use the word “socialism”. It’ll scare em off. Describe its components and it’s amazing how much of of it they’re just on board with cuz it makes sense.
And that’s usually where I leave it… hopefully the seed takes root and they realize on their own later that all these awesome sounding things wrapped up into one package is socialism, but if it comes from me they’ll reject it immediately.
Tell em you heard Dump is becoming socialist by collecting money from everyone to support the Epstein class. Actually don’t use his name at first and say you heard politicians are starting a socialist movement to take everyone’s money and redistribute it to the people who own things so it can trickle down again.