Kill Capitalism ~ Save the World

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13. That's one of the central things that we as socialists need to do, in my opinion.

We need to convince people that are almost there (progressive democrats, for instance) that capitalism cannot work. Not just that it's currently failing, but that--like the article in the OP states--it will never work, could never work. It's a system that reduces people to profit-makers. I think we will see real progress when we can convince a larger part of the country to support the idea of a new system.

That's one of my favorite things about the Black Lives Matter movement, too: it's making people realize that this system will continue as long as there is capitalism. There was a great panel with John Carson that drove that home to about 500 people up here in Seattle in January. It was a particularly fortuitous time, since it was right after the big MLK day march, and we were able to draw attention to a lot of what he advocated economically later in his life. I think the message is definitely spreading--I'm hopefully going to join the Seattle chapter of the ISO in a few weeks or so, and I know that getting out that awareness is probably the biggest goal in the group.