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Liberals often think that if someone has different opinions from them, then they must be a conservative, because they have no idea that socialists exist.
Sometimes liberals think that socialists are the leftmost liberals, but weβre not liberals at all: we want nothing short of the abolition of private ownership of the means of production.
Iβll save this comment for next time someone tells me socialism isnβt that big a change
Usually when people say that they mean what Bernie Sanders means when he says socialism, which is liberalism with a social safety net.
Americans have forgotten what socialism actually means, because socialists & socialist thought were purged during the Red Scare and McCarthyism and the Cold War in general. Most Europeans I think still retain the original meaning of the word.
terrifying to me that someone could look at the world around us and think a big change would be a bad thing...
Or they know that they exist but don't really understand socialism, Marxism, historical materialism, things like dictatorship of capital etc.
yeah most liberals believe horseshoe theory and think Communists and fascists are both evil authoritarian rightists.