Surviving Capitalism (Not) : How Socialism became Public Enemy #1 in America (Abby Martin & Brian Becker)

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, April 21, 2019

How Socialism became Public Enemy #1 in America (Abby Martin & Brian Becker)

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Abby Martin and socialist Brian Becker present and comment on the capitalist ruling class's war on socialism. Of course, this history was exorcised from your history books so that you are completely uninformed about significant socialist movements in our past. This omission is another illustration of how ruling classes control every institution to insure that in their societies capitalism reigns supreme. They have succeeded in brainwashing you beyond their wildest dreams. But, as Becker argues, younger generations of Americans are increasingly open to these socialist ideas.