Why are americans so ignorant when it comes to socialism

Why are americans so ignorant when it comes to socialism

red scare propaganda

americans are so brainwashed that they believe capitalism is the only reasonable thing in the world, even the poor ones

Because it's the most reactionary country in the world.

Sadly, this.

I'm mexican and it makes me sad that american conservativism greatly influences my country's political stances

Burger here. Yeah, the cold war. The indoctrination is deep here. It's absolutely everywhere.

There's not really any access to the truth unless you're actively seeking it on the internet. The media has us completely brainwashed.

It took me a lot of soul searching to come around to see what was right in front of me.

Open your eyes dude. It's not just conservatism, it's US liberalism too. It's capitalist indoctrination both ways.

No one in America is safe from capitalist brainwashing

All of you you are idiots. Socialism / Communism NEVER works.

Not sure if you're just repeating what I'm saying, but yeah.

Except for labor rights and transforming medieval tier backwaters into world's 2nd superpower in the blink of 50 years…

At my high school you were called a stupid socialist for being anything to the left of the democrats (the moderate ones).

Found your problem. I don't think there's a single thing America isn't completely fucking wrong about.

But that was State Capitalism :^)

Having a solid 3 Red Scares can really fuck with the population. Also the failure for an economic collapse right after WW2 that Stalin predicted which would have basically killed Capitalism doesn't help.

Just know that when you're drinking water it's my piss in it. And capitalism sucks.

Hopefully politicians like Bernie can change that awful dogshit view of politics and turn people into actual leftism and not american sponsored liberalism

Because communism is when the government runs everything, takes all your stuff, and nobody has any freedoms.

Capitalism is advanced slavery and socialism fails because people are egotistical pieces of shit
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Found the meme

Because they're ignorant about everything. As are the peoples of all countries. And the reason is that their rulers precisely control how educated and informed they should be in order to do their jobs, not one iotta more.

Americans believe that capitalism is better because they think competition and innovation can only exist in such envirement but what they fail to realize is the explotation of workers, i guess it's normal for them to be a slave of the higher ones in the food chain

Its a remnant of cold war propaganda. Soviet Union and communism were real threats to them and they produced propaganda to counter it.

Why is it that Americans and others who know they have done no actual research on Socialism whatsoever then go out and think they're experts on it? Even pretending to be a second generation Soviet immigrant or something.

Criticising shit without researching it first is retarded.

I also don't get it when real second gen Eastern Bloc immigrants act like they're experts on socialism.

Who fucking cares what your mom told you?

Americans basically live in their own little reality bubble where it's impossible to mentally articulate different points of view or think critically at all. Even people who are fed up with this remain trapped and simply become misanthropes, i.e. muh human nature. Postmodernism is used to give people the illusion of breaking free from these epistemological limits while drawing them deeper in, which is why it's currently the dominant ideology in academia; the idea of actually holding an unorthodox opinion is outright laughed at as childhood phases and fads. (This has ironically become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as you can see from US college students).

I'd wager that every American who has actually read a full work by Marx could fit in a two story house.

Ftfy you dirty crypto-nationalist

And this fear of communism and socialism has seeped into American anarchist circles as well. Now class analysis is class reductionism and class is just another form of oppression, along side colour, gender, sexuality, etc.

Class analysis is essential to leftism and if you want to go be a post-left Anarchist and eat out of garbage cans be my guest, but don't reject class analysis and call it reductionism and then call yourself an anarcho-communist.

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OP, take it to /int/

Because schools don't teach them about Debs, Newton, Jackson and all them other folk

My shitty school in the south taught us about V. Debs but he was a footnote. However, they never went over the labor movement or the Haymarket Affair

Yeah these were just a few examples. America has a lot of radical history, but it's often not passed forward, which is why new generations always arrive at conclusions that would be "moderate" decades ago and think they're saying some new.

BLM for example would be accused of being a shitty liberal, incoherent group by radical black factions in the late 60's, but people adhere to it 50 years later like it's the latest word in progressive politics.

Fixed.