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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

But why would you take your extremely limited audience with a passing viewer as a chance to reinforce a nonsense definition when it's genuinely one of the core difficulties socialism faces that people are systematically misinformed on its basic nature? Why assume that they'll have the inclination to unlearn this false definition that we are contributing to for the sake of this useless "anti-capitalist" gesture? Have we not seen the ideological capture of places like antiwork that failed to have any sort of positive alternative and end up just becoming, to be generous, socdem liberalism?

The very first thing that a socialist should do is try to explain, even in the most glancing terms, what socialism is, and that will on average get more interest and more productive engagement than another "capitalism bad :P" post to go on the pile of decades of liberals nebulously complaining about capitalism.