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Cheese Sandwich

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2. How to explain socialism to liberals though?

Reply to Fantastic Anarchist (Original post)

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 12:07 PM

Nov 2015

DU is a liberal website people think roads are socialism. What to do?

I don't want to discourage people from thinking about the ideas. But it's not clear how to get people to engage with much bigger ideas than they usually care about. Like how to get people to think about the possibility of a completely different way to organize society around principals of democracy and meeting human needs, instead of for private profit. Tricky.

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On the distinction of socialist concepts (i.e. fire department) and 'socialism' [View all] Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2015 OP

It's "tenet" not "tenant" 3rd paragraph Demeter Nov 2015 #1

I wrote this really early. As you can see, there were other areas where I spelled it correctly. Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2015 #3

How to explain socialism to liberals though? Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #2

Yeah, but the greats did it ... Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2015 #4

Yeah Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #5

Yes, it is and I agree. Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2015 #6

+1 nt F4lconF16 Nov 2015 #7