In this post that I found while browsing via Popular, people are openly talking about Marx and capitalism. In another post I saw, people were praising Lula. These are both posts I found via Popular, ie these are the ones the algo is promoting and are getting a lot of traction. That’s a good sign!
I’m sure there are plenty bad parts to Reddit, and the site as a whole might be astroturfed to hell, but there are so many people there that are open to socialism, maybe more than any other popular social media platform.
Maybe you can’t praise China or talk about Russia, but I feel everything else is game. And honestly? I think that’s fine. If we can get the average Redditor to turn to socialism and to bring down western imperialism, then that is already gonna be the biggest possible help the global south can ask for.
12k upvotes and removed because it is “low quality”.
You see leftism is an aesthetic. Maybe you remember back in the days when r/latestagecapitalism got popular, or when r/futurology had like 200k subs. Heck even go back to the Bernie era and you’d be forgiven for having a little bit of hope for the future.
But no, it is just aesthetic. Pointing out things suck is a great way to get upvotes, just don’t ponder the alternatives or even the only real alternative and you’ll get the same “well you see maybe Capitalism sucks but TINA”.
“Oh Capitalism sucks but dEmOCraCYyYYYYYYYYY!”
“Oh capitalism sucks but tankies are worse than nazis!”
When you put the Bernie effect into context here it is also quite clear the “socialists” of reddit want healthcare and college anyway not socialism, and socialism doesn’t mean a workers revolution but moving to Sweden.