“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:
I’d advise you to read the following pamphlet: https://frso.org/main-documents/some-points-on-the-mass-line/
“Well, everyone thinks their political opinion is the correct one, what gives you the right to say yours is correct”
I remember this futurama meme where the kind lizard person is watching some old TV show and asks, “why does the larger class not simply eat the smaller one?”
I like to think, whether or not it’s a moral good, communism is inevitable because our class interests are antithetical and there are more of us than there are of them. It’s socialism or barbarism. I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer to avoid ecological collapse, homelessness, disease, and aggressive cops everywhere.
Also, what’s blissful about working a shitty job until you roll over?
“Well, everyone thinks their political opinion is the correct one, what gives you the right to say yours is correct”
OP got it wrong in the 2nd step, sad! It’s because communism is a world-historic movement of people who understand their material relation to capital production and accumulation.
really, socialism is only built from suffering, technological progress, strong institutions, and individual predispositions. thats it. its almost impossible to convince people until they get thrown into the lion’s pit. the only people willing to go into a revolution are those that no longer have anything to lose.
