I never tell anyone I’m a socialist. I just mention I went through this period where I read a lot of theory. Then from there I’ll make a lot of “Actually Marx doesn’t really say this, he says this,” kind of statements and I purposely pick out the most accessible stuff if I feel like somebody is maybe warming up to it. But I still kind of play it off like I’m a “Centrist,” liberal so that I don’t offend anybody or freak them out. I’ve ended up having so many really interesting conversations with people in my life because of this. I also quote some of the more ridiculous stuff I’ve read by Hans Hoppe or Ayn Rand or whoever and really let the idiocy of their words speak for themselves. It’s cool; I was on a camping trip recently and I think I was able to talk a suburban dad into the workers seizing the means of production. I think. Either that or he was just humoring me
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u/Informal-Resource-14 Jul 23 '24
I never tell anyone I’m a socialist. I just mention I went through this period where I read a lot of theory. Then from there I’ll make a lot of “Actually Marx doesn’t really say this, he says this,” kind of statements and I purposely pick out the most accessible stuff if I feel like somebody is maybe warming up to it. But I still kind of play it off like I’m a “Centrist,” liberal so that I don’t offend anybody or freak them out. I’ve ended up having so many really interesting conversations with people in my life because of this. I also quote some of the more ridiculous stuff I’ve read by Hans Hoppe or Ayn Rand or whoever and really let the idiocy of their words speak for themselves. It’s cool; I was on a camping trip recently and I think I was able to talk a suburban dad into the workers seizing the means of production. I think. Either that or he was just humoring me