they already have the wrong definition of socialism. they just learned a new perspective about capitalism tho. you didn’t always know the correct definition of socialism. seeing a meme on the internet doesn’t grant an eternal curse on you that disallows you from ever learning what the correct definition of socialism is
But why would you take your extremely limited audience with a passing viewer as a chance to reinforce a nonsense definition when it’s genuinely one of the core difficulties socialism faces that people are systematically misinformed on its basic nature? Why assume that they’ll have the inclination to unlearn this false definition that we are contributing to for the sake of this useless “anti-capitalist” gesture? Have we not seen the ideological capture of places like antiwork that failed to have any sort of positive alternative and end up just becoming, to be generous, socdem liberalism?
The very first thing that a socialist should do is try to explain, even in the most glancing terms, what socialism is, and that will on average get more interest and more productive engagement than another “capitalism bad :P” post to go on the pile of decades of liberals nebulously complaining about capitalism.
What part of the meme that I didn’t create that is a screenshot of an old video-game that already misquotes the games themselves do I push the entire copied text of Grundrisse?
giving more people a wrong definition of socialism is definitely not helpful
they already have the wrong definition of socialism. they just learned a new perspective about capitalism tho. you didn’t always know the correct definition of socialism. seeing a meme on the internet doesn’t grant an eternal curse on you that disallows you from ever learning what the correct definition of socialism is
But why would you take your extremely limited audience with a passing viewer as a chance to reinforce a nonsense definition when it’s genuinely one of the core difficulties socialism faces that people are systematically misinformed on its basic nature? Why assume that they’ll have the inclination to unlearn this false definition that we are contributing to for the sake of this useless “anti-capitalist” gesture? Have we not seen the ideological capture of places like antiwork that failed to have any sort of positive alternative and end up just becoming, to be generous, socdem liberalism?
The very first thing that a socialist should do is try to explain, even in the most glancing terms, what socialism is, and that will on average get more interest and more productive engagement than another “capitalism bad :P” post to go on the pile of decades of liberals nebulously complaining about capitalism.
What part of the meme that I didn’t create that is a screenshot of an old video-game that already misquotes the games themselves do I push the entire copied text of Grundrisse?
Then it would finally be an acceptable leftist meme. There’s a minimum word count to these things you know!