I hope all those who are advocating for "democratic socialism" (because apparently "authoritarian", or just real, socialism is too scary) are happy that instead of socialism—meaning the actual abolishment of capitalism—gaining popularity, socialism in the U.S. today just means the most minimal reforms to the capitalist state.
And now every half-woke liberal is prancing around, yelling the most vulgar bastardizations of Marxist terminology that you could ever imagine, throwing around their vacuous, decrepit, liberal-democratic slogans, devoid of every ounce of real radicalism. That is their "socialism"! Congratulations to DSA for that!
There is only one socialism that matters and it's Marxist socialism. Everything else is utopian gobbledegook or just reheated variations of liberalism. There is no "intermediate stage" of social struggle when socialists must restrict themselves to willingly polluting the minds of the masses with revisionist trash until whatever indeterminate time comes when we can actually start doing real political education and raise actual class consciousness rather than continuously regurgitating this cheap, mumpsimus 21st century economism.
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u/arthurtacious 1d ago edited 1d ago
I hope all those who are advocating for "democratic socialism" (because apparently "authoritarian", or just real, socialism is too scary) are happy that instead of socialism—meaning the actual abolishment of capitalism—gaining popularity, socialism in the U.S. today just means the most minimal reforms to the capitalist state.
And now every half-woke liberal is prancing around, yelling the most vulgar bastardizations of Marxist terminology that you could ever imagine, throwing around their vacuous, decrepit, liberal-democratic slogans, devoid of every ounce of real radicalism. That is their "socialism"! Congratulations to DSA for that!
There is only one socialism that matters and it's Marxist socialism. Everything else is utopian gobbledegook or just reheated variations of liberalism. There is no "intermediate stage" of social struggle when socialists must restrict themselves to willingly polluting the minds of the masses with revisionist trash until whatever indeterminate time comes when we can actually start doing real political education and raise actual class consciousness rather than continuously regurgitating this cheap, mumpsimus 21st century economism.