This came to my mind after the recent elections in the US where around 15 self described "Democratic Socialists" won elections.
The main one being Lee Carter, who unseated on of Virginias most powerful republicans. It's a fact that most Americans when asked about actual issues lean somewhat left, but the word socialist is seemingly so poisonous people reject it out of fear, even when what thy do is far from socialism.
My question is to you guys and gals.
What are some tactics and other methods we can use to make Socialism appealing to Americans, or maybe make the word and the ideas associated with it "Acceptable."
Levi Sanders
This is now a Holla Forums & /leftpol/ collaboration thread: >>>/leftpol/1771
Levi Howard
To be honest, it won’t be for a while. One of the most potent results of the Red Scare propaganda was the words “communists” and “socialists” being associated with any ideological enemy or flaw in society.
The Russians who hacked the election according to the Democrats? Communist. Big government? Communist. Eight hour work days? Communism.
Oliver Sanchez
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Anthony Roberts
Didn't Marx/Lenin literally state that socialism is a fundamental stepping stone towards communism?
Dominic Davis
Go to the places where people have literally nothing and start fixing problems with theory. Ignore bourgeois elections. Community provides food for itself, basic healthcare, water, school, and protection from cops. Build networks and send people to other communities to do the same. Do it in places like Flint/Detroit/Ignored low-income areas of Houston.
Asher Campbell
No, Stalin said that. Marx didn’t make a distinction between socialism and communism, he used the terms interchangeably.
Jonathan Russell
I already contributed to this topic a bit on the identical thread on /leftpol/ (under the thinking face flag) so I think I'm just going to dump some "patriotic" symbolism from the American Revolution which could very easily be appropriated by leftists.
Jack Adams
just forget about that war that happened all throughout the 60s kek
Lucas Murphy
Mainstream American patriotism is wildly successful by erasing inconvenient aspects of history. I don’t see why we can’t do the same.
