Let’s play a game: why am I, an ostensibly well-intentioned leftist, banging on about the “sacrifices” that will have to be made under socialism this time?
- I’ve uncritically swallowed the ancap canard that all economic activity is a form of capitalism, and I’m tying myself into knots trying to imagine a society with no economy
- I’m fixated on the aesthetic of a society of enlightened
artist-philosophers subsisting in genteel austerity, probably from
watching too much Star Trek, and I’ve built my entire notion of socialism around the assumption that this sort of society is both desirable and inevitable- I like the idea of social safety nets in theory, but I haven’t gotten over
my upper middle class suspicion that somewhere, somebody might be
getting something they don’t deserve- I’ve only managed to overcome my unexamined productivity fetishism by replacing it with an equally unexamined efficiency fetishism, and I’ll blink at you like a confused owl if you bring up quality of life
- I’ve bought into the narrative of personal responsibility and I honestly believe my massive carbon footprint stems primarily from my individual consumption choices rather than from institutional inefficiencies
- All of the above
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