I hear anti-communist nonsense at work sometimes and this is what it feels like. "Commies tried so many times and it always fails!" (literally ignoring coups and regime changes, AES, that capitalism might kill us all, sex trafficking, etc)

Me with little theory background and almost 0 economics knowledge trying to advocate for socialism/communism to my right wing coworkers

Didnt capitalism take centuries to triumph over feudalism? There was embrionary capitalism in the XV or XVI century, and when the Russian Empire was liberated in 1917, it hadn't yet completed its transition from feudalism.

Ask these folks if they have a better idea. They never do and always fall back to capitalism, even though we’re all witnessing capitalists fuck up the entire planet. They won’t even entertain the pieces of a whole as good ideas. It’s either all or nothing. They’ve already skewed the argument in their favor because of capitalist propaganda influence.

My favorite is when people admit it works in small groups but doesn't scale. It's an amazingly defeatist attitude.

Nothing funnier than watching people use a strawman themselves while attempting to illustrate an example of a strawman.

There was 70 years...