These statistics quantitatively express a significant shift in political mood and perspective that has occurred over just the last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the US and the world.
I have never said they will inevitably become socialists. I've said that making sure they do is on us. We have a harder time convincing someone of socialism who immediately stops any rational thought when they hear the word "socialism" than someone who is already partly on board with socialist policies.
Historically soc-dems have been some of the most virulent and effective anti-commusntists, your argument sound good in a vacuum but there's never been any evidence of it happening on a large scale
You know which movements are an even bigger thread to communists? Open anti-communists like fascists.
Hitler did set back the communist movement in Germany quite a bit by literally killing them. Sure, soc-dems have broader appeal by being less radical, and most people being too afraid of true radical change. But I'll still have an easier time of pulling a soc-dem over, than I'll pull a fascist or neoliberal over.
Fuck, even Lenin did side with soc-dems, when it was to oppose more right movements...
I have never said they will inevitably become socialists. I've said that making sure they do is on us. We have a harder time convincing someone of socialism who immediately stops any rational thought when they hear the word "socialism" than someone who is already partly on board with socialist policies.
Historically soc-dems have been some of the most virulent and effective anti-commusntists, your argument sound good in a vacuum but there's never been any evidence of it happening on a large scale
You know which movements are an even bigger thread to communists? Open anti-communists like fascists.
Hitler did set back the communist movement in Germany quite a bit by literally killing them. Sure, soc-dems have broader appeal by being less radical, and most people being too afraid of true radical change. But I'll still have an easier time of pulling a soc-dem over, than I'll pull a fascist or neoliberal over.
Fuck, even Lenin did side with soc-dems, when it was to oppose more right movements...
Those movements are dead, were dealing with neoliberalism now, don't compare apples and oranges