“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”

at least we get to see the debates between trump and biden. two senile old men arguing over whos a better administrator of this death cult

v bad

s/appeal to Bernie people/preemptively blame us for Biden's upcoming loss to trump/

it's very funny watching the biden campaign try to appeal to Bernie people as if we can suddenly forget the complete disdain it has shown to us

already been seeing the "anyone who won't vote for biden is a fake leftist white man" takes circulating everywhere and i don't think i've ever been more interested in buying a flamethrower weed burner from tractor supply

it turns out they just wanted to be left alone before they fucked

They just don't give. a. fuck.

posting a bunch of articles because I'm catching up on my reading

hell yes

i am going to commit my one vote to bernie sanders yes

again

only in america could an important part of the electoral process be called "super tuesday". so dumb.

i put my "i voted" sticker on a bottle of shitty whisky

Too late I already did 😏

thank you

love a good ooze day

i've been doing my duty. i've voted over 5,000 times today.

Christian socialists are very common lol

woah

Cuba has done great things with their nationalized healthcare, to the point where Americans will commonly vacation there for care. They eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, the first nation to do so. They have famously exported their doctors for charity work.

Cuba is a deeply impoverished nation suffering from corruption, sabotage, embargo, and they can accomplish this since they had the guts to line up a few slaveowners against a wall. It's beautiful.

Sanders is a moderate.

I also don't, I'm just obsessed with the crimes of capitalists (so I know they're Bad) The Epstein black book/flight logs, Dynecorp, COINTELPRO/CHAOS...

The failures of socialism can be attributed to poverty and foreign aggression. You may recall certain carpet bombings of entire countries. In wealthy Scandinavian nations, which feature a welfare state very relatable to Sanders' proposals, things are going just swell. There is no reason we can't accomplish what they have, here in America; folks are fed up.

libcom.org has a great series of introductory guides that do a decent job, in my opinion, of explaining their flavor of libertarian socialism / libertarian communism. (those two terms are used more or less interchangeably, and neither has anything to do with right libertarianism, e.g. of the kind espoused by the american libertarian party, which is an entirely different ideology that came onto the scene much later.)

they tend to be pretty approachable and avoid jargon. they make no bones about being self-interested as workers, in advancing the rights of workers, but their explanations do not substitute emotional content for reasoning.

Note that the critiques laid out in Capital in particular are fundamentally as true about the Soviet Union or the PRC as they are about the US, for example.

I'm gonna be that person who recommends reading Marx because it provides a bit of a different answer than the ones already given. (Plus its the answer I'd give anyways I guess :P)

The Communist Manfiesto is a good introduction. There's Capital. A Critique of Political Economy, (Volume 1 in particular was completed while he was alive) which is a bit large, but its pretty good and still incredibly relevant. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific talks about a distinction made in a lot of Marx and Engels' writing.

These writings use the terms socialism and communism interchangeably (as opposed to some of the other answers here) because of a fundamental difference in perspective. It's one that is talked about in the first and third writing I linked, and somewhat indirectly in the second.