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ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors? (lemmy.world)

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[–] bappity@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Propaganda.

People don't know what socialism actually means because of propaganda...

you can ask someone who is against "socialism" whether they like it by talking about elements of it without explicitly mentioning the word "socialism" and they will probably agree with it.

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[–] pilferjinx@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago

People don't know what socialism actually is beyond literally defining it as bad and scary. It's insane how uneducated and stupid most of us are.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

seriously, do this! it's extremely fucking depressing!

Get a list of policies for a socialist party, read it to someone, then at the end say "and that's the policies the socialist party want to implement" and watch the killswitch in their brain activate.

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