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I agree that socialism has been vilified, but not a single person was told wanting a better world makes you weak. They were told that a better world is impossible, that socialism would make people lazy, that the purges were a communist policy (and that there's no difference between communism and socialism).
Some anti-left people will never come round, but some will, and we need numbers. Talking down to them won't bring anyone around.
ok we wont talk down to them but we can still slap them hard on the back of the head a lot right? or rub their faces in the shit of their outcomes.. just do it quietly?
/s yeah, I agree with you. Its counterproductive.
I feel like the only people purged were the capitalist bootlickers and robber barons. It's always a cooked up story when "Doctors, Teachers, and Businessmen" were purged because you know it was just the last category that felt oppressed even at the slightest course-correction from their vile system.
Defending Stalin will not bring anyone around, either.
Ironic how you call out how socialism and communism have been misrepresented and lied about, then immediately leap to defend the capitalist narrative around socialist leaders.
I don’t blame you though, our society has done a fantastic job of making up a narrative that socialists are the same as fascists, and conditioning people to ostracize anyone who questions that narrative, even though the actual historical evidence does not support it.