Capitalism so late stage that when people think of alternatives to capitalism they can only think of heavily authoritarian regimes

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Not rlly but you have to contextualize this choice within the Cold War. The U.S. doesn’t have an authoritarian socialist U.S. on its border that claims to be the real U.S. that’s the difference.

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Best intentions: “They initially were also responsible for suppressing and spying on former Nazis”

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i don’t think broadly, i think at the least it would be connected to our intelligence agency’s work on monitoring for domestic terrorism, as long as people are getting their needs met and don’t FEEL like they’re being exploited/controlled/watched too much i think there would be a lot of acceptance of socialism with the outlier of capitalist counterrevolutionaries who if anything are already monitored today

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