All this shows is he has absolutely zero understanding of political theory or economics.

" we don't live under capitalism"

opinion safely discarded

I blame Bernie Sanders for spreading this worthless meme and convincing socdems that it's a good argument, it arises from the same place that convinces libs to try and "out flank" the right-wing in terms of reactionary signaling, except in this case it's somehow worse because the socdems don't even realize they're being reactionary

The problem is it fails at a fundamental level as agitprop and rhetoric, people don't hear the "corporate" part (because the word is politically inert in the eyes of normies) all they hear is the socialism part, and voters are not gonna bother making the mental leaps necessary to figure out "oh he means the capitalists are hypocrites because they love "socialism" for their class, but they don't want us to have it, so actually socialism is cool"

Like how many goddamn leaps of logic would that take an uneducated normie to get to that position, even the people claiming it's anti-socialism are wrong, because this rhetoric does nothing but confuse the average person, and confusion translates to apathy and disinterest among voters, in other words "in one ear, out the other"

In the end who cares, Abdul is popular because of his polices not because he borrows worthless rhetoric from Sanders, but of course some people elevate rhetoric and it's perfection as the highest virtue

lol fuck this guy

Setting aside the misuse of "socialism", the quote also whitewashes capitalism. We are, in fact, living in capitalism; capitalism does, in fact, inevitably get this bad; and in itself provides no way out.

We don't live in Capitalism! We live in *perfectly describes capitalism*

no you don’t understand, by voting for anticommunism we will make americans more amenable to the idea of communism

the failings of capitalism continue to be socialisms fault. DSA having socialist in their name is worthless.

Socialism is when bad thing

I get the idea here, trying to communicate that the state serves the hegemonic class, there’s no fairy tale system in which it is neutral. But this particular framing just muddies the waters and reinforces the “socialism is when state does things” misconception.

This is a take i saw being peddled in like 2013 on reddit. What a loser

Typical landlord brain. I fucking hate landlords. One guy I know owns an apartment they rent out and gets angry when I call landlords parasites that want to east steak on their tenants dime lol.

What a cool country I live in

lol wait did the local DSA endorse him?

dog you can just say corporatism, that is a word that already means something

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