“Well what’s the alternative?”
tell them the alternative
“Well, everyone thinks their political opinion is the correct one, what gives you the right to say yours is correct”
passionately appeal to their human empathy and tell them why socialism is indeed correct
“Wow stop being so aggressive, you’re trying to force your beliefs on me, this is why people don’t like talking about politics”
sooner or later politics will become relevant to your life, capitalism is killing our species, do you not want to maybe do something about that…?
“Well if we’re all doomed anyway what’s the point, might as well just be blissfully ignorant”
Fucking end my life. This is almost verbatim a conversation I just had. This is a person who came from a working family who has worked and rented their whole life. Convo started when I called landlords parasites and tried to explain why, lol. How are we meant to convince a critical mass of these people to leave their false consciousness behind before capitalism fucking kills us all :doomer:
You people have to learn better how to talk with others about this.
Everybody has a wedge issue you can use to break through, you just have to press it RELENTLESSLY.
It’s simple:
- Identify this issue with who you’re speaking to.
- sympathize with them, without yet bringing up communism,
- you have to let them know that nothing is broken, this is a system working as it’s intended to
- guide them through the contradictions, it only works if their own reasoning leads them there.
- you dont bring it up until you sense that you’ve reached a bottom in the conversation. At some point they have to wonder what kind of system allows people to live in either squalor, or poor health, poverty, etc.
these people are blissfully aware of the failing of capitalism, but look away, you have to get them to stop looking away. A better world is possible.
