• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    The socialists haven’t been communicating with the working class for decades. Just sitting around complaining about liberals not listening to them.

    The socialist sentimentality around the imagery of red flags, hammers and sickles, photos of Marx and Che Guevara means the working class is going to ignore everything you say. These are imagery associated with the failures of socialism. No matter how many excuses you make about how it wasn’t socialism’s fault the previous iterations failed, you’re the ones putting yourselves in that position by insisting on associating yourselves with those failures.

    Liberals are the left side of where the will of the people is at. Because it’s a democracy and not being anywhere near where the consensus of the people are at isn’t going to win an election. You’re just sitting to the left of where liberals are at laying down judgement as if that’s going to influence the people of a country which is the only thing that’s relevant.

    Liberals will always be the left side of the will of the people. If you influence the people to move further left, liberals will move further left. But communicating with the working class isn’t what socialism is about in the 21st century. 21st century socialism is all focused on waving red flags to get attention and complaining about how politicians that follow the will of the people aren’t following your will instead.

    Fake ass socialists just whining on the internet instead of talking to the working class.

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      5 months ago

      imagery of red flags, hammers and sickles, photos of Marx and Che Guevara

      Name one French politician who uses that?

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        5 months ago

        Jean-Luc Mélenchon leader of La France Insoumise which is the biggest party on the left in France.

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          Don’t watch far right propaganda. Even the communist party removed the hammer and sickle over a decade ago.

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        5 months ago

        It’s not the politicians, it’s the people that the working class ignores do that. ie. Solcialists. Since the voters aren’t influenced by that bullshit, the politicians aren’t going to influenced by it either.

        Socialists are incapable of influencing the will of the people because of sentimentality over symbols of the past. And really why should anyone be influenced by people nostalgic for past failures and just sit around making excuses for those failures?

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          ? ? ? Sir this is Europe, you’re in the wrong part of the world, you don’t know what socialists are.

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            American exceptionalism was already cringe enough, but now they’re trying to extrapolate their own politics to everywhere else in the world? Holy shit they’re hopeless.

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            5 months ago

            Oh I’m sorry thought it was global ideological movement, not a religious movement with different sects in different parts of the world. Sorry for the confusion.

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      5 months ago

      You are whining about a vocal internet minority, that’s why they’re not doing anything. Just because you see someone complaining about “the man” and calling themselves socialists on lemmy or some other internet forum doesn’t mean they’re representative of the left in general.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        Nah fam, I vote in every election I’m eligible for. I choose who to vote factoring in which platform is closest to what I want along with the probability of that party actually being in a position to implement it. I phone bank so politicians will owe me and I can influence them to go further in the direction I want.

        None of the text you type on this site influences anything a politician will do. Actually participating in the process does. Typing up essays about how liberals are bad because they aren’t socialists is just useless whining. If you fail to convince the working class that socialism will make their lives better (and if you did that the politicians would fall in line) then you’re accomplishing nothing.