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Honestly at a certain point labels only help when you share a common definition with your audience.
If I call myself a socialist I need to preface it by defining socialism because everyone above 25 still thinks it means autocratic dictatorial regime where the government owns your underpants.
I just tell people that democracy is better than monarchy so we should expand that to workplaces and give workers a vote on the direction of their workplace. Most people are more amenable to this than dropping the S word or god forbid C word.
I just tell people that democracy is better than monarchy so we should expand that to workplaces and give workers a vote on the direction of their workplace. Most people are more amenable to this than dropping the S word or god forbid C word.
I used to live out in the boonies, surrounded by rednecks, and this approach worked almost every time unless one of them was well-read enough to know I was talking about socialism.
Im also an anarchist and get around that by pulling the ol switcheroo on them. I say a bunch of anarchist shit I know they’ll agree with and when the times right go “yeah and thats why I’m an anarchist”. Gets them to open up a bit and leaves them with a better impression of what anarchism actually is
Honestly at a certain point labels only help when you share a common definition with your audience.
If I call myself a socialist I need to preface it by defining socialism because everyone above 25 still thinks it means autocratic dictatorial regime where the government owns your underpants.
I just tell people that democracy is better than monarchy so we should expand that to workplaces and give workers a vote on the direction of their workplace. Most people are more amenable to this than dropping the S word or god forbid C word.
I used to live out in the boonies, surrounded by rednecks, and this approach worked almost every time unless one of them was well-read enough to know I was talking about socialism.
And in my experience the well read ones will either screech about socialism or are themselves a socialist.
“I’m into super democracy. Would you like to argue against democracy as a concept, or just dance around insisting it’s somehow different?”
Im also an anarchist and get around that by pulling the ol switcheroo on them. I say a bunch of anarchist shit I know they’ll agree with and when the times right go “yeah and thats why I’m an anarchist”. Gets them to open up a bit and leaves them with a better impression of what anarchism actually is