There have been daily posts about energy prices on r/Belgium. Most people will probably bankrupt themselves paying these prices.
The comments are filled with ‘I’m not a commie, but’ and ‘I’m not the socialist type, but’ type of comments.
Motherfucker, if only you were. If only you had an ounce of class awareness, if only you’d care enough to join a party and take action.
I swear to Allah these people will die of shortages, poverty or freeze to death or something before they might consider themselves to be lukewarm socialist. As if it is a disease you can catch.
End of rant. I understand these people are misinformed and need guidance. The party and I will do our best to educate them on the matters. But fucking hell do I get tired of their stupidity.
Thanks for listening.
It’s exactly the same in Poland, but worse. It is enough to throw the word “socialism” to suddenly cut off entire discussion. Millions of people, even though most of them will agree with a lot of socialist points, will literally die before even think of turning red.
It’s like reverse Pandora’s Box
Reminds me of a quote by Yellow Parenti:
‘It’s time ladies and gentlemen, it’s time we ask: ‘What’s a communist? What does a communist do, that it’s so dangerous?’ They would have us believe that communists are merely hungry for power rather than willing the power to end hunger. The NY Times, let me refer to an editorial, they describe the undesirable and offensive regimes, by the way, these countries don’t have governments they have regimes, we have governments. And I ask myself: what is undesirable? Was it the land reform program? When they took all that privately owned land owned by a few rich people and gave it all to the poor? Is it the farm co-ops that they are setting up? Is it the community industries and the public work programs that create jobs for people who have been chronically unemployed? Is it the food program or the rations of beans and rice for every kid in Nicaragua so that everybody, no matter how poor that country is, they’re all getting fed? Is it having the lowest infant mortality rate in Central America despite earthquakes and civil war and foreign invasion and attack and embargo? [paraphrasing] It’s about exploited people claiming back their land and saying: ‘This is not for you anymore!’’