r/CommunistPropaganda

Whenever you see a leftist or a Democrat, trying to defend their new Democratic socialist coalition always remember that those economic simpletons spent years fighting each other over what is real socialism, by all means we have to go out there to teach them their own system, it’s failures, it’s hypocrisy, it’s illusions, and most importantly it’s stupidity.

The most classic one emerging that the economic simpletons have been spouting is that democratic socialism isn’t real socialism and it’s only social democracy, my guy if that was the case why wouldn’t they call it social democracy? Whenever I hear the economic simpletons say something along the lines of “mix of both” “social democracy” I wanna puke.
“I was elected three times”- Hugo Chavez

So here is it what socialism actually is because the economic simpletons will never give you the right answer and it’s implications;

Socialism is that system which seeks to collectivize the means of production by abolishing private property.

Socialists like saying that you still get to keep your personal property but the illusion that they fall for is absolutely pathetic, if time, labor, capital, land, etc are means of production… the government controls your time, land, and capital.

As seen in the Soviet Union the Continuous Work Week (or nepreryvka) introduced by Joseph Stalin in 1929. It abolished the traditional seven-day week and weekends in an attempt to maximize industrial output and disrupt religious practices.

The government replaced the standard weekend with a rotating five-day or six-day cycle where citizens worked for four (or five) days and had one designated rest day.
Worker Groups: Society was divided into color-coded groups (e.g., yellow, orange, red). Each group had a different day off.
The Goal: This kept factories and offices operating non-stop without traditional holidays or "Sundays off"

But yeah, man, according to the socialists you have private property, you just can’t build your home past a specific size nor in very specific architectural manners since that potentially disrupts industrial output, with the little industrial capability that they are capable of (cars took 10 years). There is no separation between personal and private property, because land resources and time are used personally and privately

On social media, Omar Fateh shared that he was "proudly endorsed by Twin Cities DSA" for his re-election campaign to keep representing South Minneapolis:

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Just one day before Fateh shared this, the Atlantic ran a story on the Democratic Socialists of America ("There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists") to provide an account of the current DSA (of which the TC DSA is "a legal subsidiary"):

>It’s true that the DSA has areas of ideological overlap with the Democratic Party, and would at least directionally support classic Democratic policies such as a higher minimum wage, defending social spending, and opposing the Trump administration. But the DSA’s version of democratic socialism goes far beyond routine public functions such as garbage collection and Social Security (which most Republicans, not to mention Democrats, support), or even aspirational policies such as Medicare for All...

>The DSA has become...more illiberal, and more dogmatic...

>A decade ago, the excitement generated by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign on the left and the frightening rise of Donald Trump spurred an influx of tens of thousands of young members. Some of the new recruits were Marxist-Leninist organizers who saw the DSA’s growing membership as fertile ground.

>Sectarian conflict broke out among rival factions vying to steer the group’s suddenly growing membership. In 2018, some of the DSA’s older activists formed the North Star caucus, an internal group to defend...antiauthoritarian principles from its newer authoritarian-minded entrants...

>The DSA’s Red Star caucus was formed the year after the North Star caucus, in an apparent rebuke. It writes [in 2024] that nearly half of the members of the National Political Committee, the DSA’s highest leadership body, “openly identify as communists”....These left-wing factions have realigned the organization in firm opposition to liberal democracy...

>What the DSA demands of the Democrats is not merely to advocate more generous social policies, or more cautious foreign affairs, but to welcome, or at least accept, authoritarians as their coalition partners. Democrats are likely to face the same kind of pressure that Republicans confronted with MAGA’s hostile takeover: first to ignore their allies’ sinister goals, and then to rationalize and eventually justify them.

>As authoritarian elements gain strength, they become more essential to the success of a political coalition, and the price of confronting them rises. The Republican Party has long since passed the point of no return. The easiest time to draw clear moral lines against the encroachment of illiberalism within one’s own camp is at the beginning.

Should any politician, even one on "the left", be proud of a DSA endorsement? Does the TC DSA have the same problems as the national DSA (eg, accepting of communists, comfortable with "authoritarian-minded" members, etc)?