Progressive Politics

You know why.
it's because of "PR".
it's because Average Alex
(or Pat, or Sam, or whatever name for whatever-/either-/neither-gender person)
has been trained since birth to think CaPiTaLiSm gOoD
and also reflexively feel scared, angry, and sometimes even a little bit nauseous when they hear big words that """capitalism""" doesn't like, such as bourgeoisie, proletariat, socialism, communism, anarchism, etc.

In a way similar to grievously unwell pets who won't swallow medicine until and unless it is hidden inside something else the critter actually wants to eat, the stressed depressed AnyPerson lacks a fundamental ability to ingest information that has been marinated in bitterness by the centuries of public relations campaigning that the rich have been waging against the poor since humans had the ability to count and one person had to come up with a plausible excuse for why they have more stuff than another person.

It's also similar to antibiotic resistant pathogens, that societies infected with capitalism witness this infection rendering rhetoric used against it useless. Pretending that anything else is the case is a fool's errand doomed to failure. Honestly the only thing socialism and communism and anarchy have going for themselves is how chuds keep pointing at literally anything good or beneficial that would improve the material conditions of the population and calling it "socialism", "communism", or "anarchy".

Hell maybe we should lean into that more, just labeling all kinds of objectively good things that people have a gut reaction to crave and protect "socialism" "communism" and "anarchy" and pointing out the actual ways in which capitalism wants to destroy it.

Do you love your children? Capitalism wants to take them away by incarcerating them for petty excuses and exploiting them for prison-based slavery; it's the entire reason there's an exception for that specific form of slavery on the law books. Do you love food? Sorry, getting to eat is socialist communism. Capitalism says you will own nothing and be happy. Capitalism says the food belongs to the company and you're only renting it. Do you like having somewhere to live? Wrong. Capitalism requires all property be owned by private corporate entities and you have to rent it from them. You think you bought your house? Not after Capitalism has its way with it, jacking the "value" of your property so high that you can't afford the cost they are charging you to maintain it but refusing to buy it at that price. Capitalism can afford to wait until you're bankrupt so big corpo can swoop in and buy it off an auction for peanuts and then not allow you to live in it. Because they want you to be a prisoner, in a prison, doing free labor for them. Do you like breathing air? Too bad! As soon as capitalism finds a way to bill you for it, you'll be paying a subscription to not suffocate. Don't you miss not having a gatekeeper looking to collect a toll on every little thing you do? Sorry, that's socialist communist anarchy and you can't have that!