Richard
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Maybe a good way to advance the cause of socialism is to point out the myriad problems that people encounter every day in the capitalist system.If someone can't afford medicine for their child then just ask the rhetorical question: "I wonder if there's a better way to help sick people? The system we have doesn't seem to work unless you're filthy rich!"If a friend is worried about credit card debt ask them why they feel the need to keep buying stuff they don't need.If you pass by a homeless person ask your friends why they think people are homeless and don't settle for the usual answers like "They want to be homeless" or "They're all drug addicts".When the next war starts just ask your friends and family who benefits from wars. Steer the conversation to point the finger at large corporations like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Boeing.Don't just blurt out that we need socialism because people have been bombarded for generations by capitalist propaganda. Turning things around will be like turning around a supertanker. But we can do it if we chip away at people's belief in the current system which is riddled with inequality and corporate corruption. The inhumane faults in capitalism need to be highlighted at every opportunity before we can propose humane socialist alternatives.
One of the greatest propaganda coups of the 20th century was the USSR convincing the rest of the world that it was socialist. Of course the capitalist class in the West was perfectly happy to go along with this little game of calling the Bolshevik dictatorship "socialist" as a way of scaring the working and middle classes in the West. Socialism was fairly popular in Canada and the US until the USSR came along.
