Does anyone think people in Minnesota should radicalize others there to socialism?

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A: Learning about socialism is not radicalizing.

  B: Americans have been propagandized to death, poisioning their minds to believe socialism is abject poverty for everyone but the poor lazy useless eaters. They are on average just stupid enough to beleive it without question.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    1. If so, then what’s radicalizing like?

    2. To be honest, I think the best time the US should’ve become a socialist country would be during the Great Depression - the economy was going down the toilet and people are waiting to get by, but it’s gonna require word-of-mouth, an aversion of the Red Scares and such. The alternate history story “Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline” (wiki here) would probably give you an idea on what would that be like.

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      1. The dictionary is your friend.
      2. The best time was in the past. The next best time is tomorrow after a good night’s sleep, a nice hot shower and a healthy breakfast.

      Word of mouth can’t compete with fascist corporate media broadcasting poison 24/7 to idiots. Radio, TV, “news”, web content. It’s highly orchestrated scientifically optimized propaganda.

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• ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most citizens of the US are not educated enough to understand what socialism is. They believe in capitalism.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So how do you think we should radicalize them to socialism? We can do a class consciousness platform. It worked for Zohran in New York.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Give it a catchy new name. Never mention the words socialism, communism, or capitalism. Just say what the movement stands for and see if people agree once the bias is removed.

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    • ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a great start, and I wouldn’t have seen it happen anywhere else in the US. But socialism is week because it doesn’t have the resources like what capitalism has exploited and has turned into fascism, scaring everyone that socialism is bad for their way of life, which if you ask any citizen would tell you that it stinks. I’m still skeptical of Mamdani, because everyone is susceptible to corruption and/or intimidation.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Socialism is dead. You need to define new ways and new words for it, if you want to make things better in today’s world.

  But if you want to restrict it all to just one province of one country, and that is even in that very uneducated Usa, then you can as well leave away the theory. Just tell them to vote left.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Then how are you gonna tell Trump voters to vote left? What did Zohran do that got him the keys to his office as Mayor of New York City?

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Zohran had many volunteers knocking on doors and talking to people. He’s also charismatic, and focused on concrete actionable things.

      It’s hard to get people mad about “let’s run buses on time”.

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    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am not from there. I cannot tell you any “how” answers.

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is not socialism or (free) communism, but fascism that is radical.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Radicalize”?

  You have a very steep uphill battle ahead of you trying to equate socialism with something extreme, and it’s got nothing to do with Lemmy.

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