Comradeship // Freechat

2115 readers

1 users here now

Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.

A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml

-5

Socialism? Never heard of her 🤔 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by birdcat@lemmy.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

For most people, "socialism" is an unclear or even scary word. This hinders the willingness to engage with its ideas or even consider it a viable alternative to whatever we are running on now.

So, (Sunday hot take!): why not stop using the word when advocating for "socialist ideas" or the "abandonment of capitalism" etc.?

My suggestion for a new term is Capitalism 2.0; because consider the following thought process:

feudalism –› capitalism –› socialism = nooo, they gonna steal my toothbrush😭

feudalism –› capitalism –› capitalism 2.0. = omg, finally things will get better! 🥳

That framing could alleviate negative associations and misconceptions and as a result make all kinds of people more open to exploring and questioning the principles and structures that are hindering global progress.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if people find out that they've been tricked into supporting socialism, i get the feeling that it's going to backfire really hard.

also, you'll need to keep rebranding it every time it gets presented as evil by bougie media, as fiona said.

[–] birdcat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you, it was SOCIALISM all along!!!!