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Twitter 'socialists' be like:
(hexbear.net)
Ha ha noooo dont look at history bro, it doesn't provide road maps bro, trust me ha ha, we dont want full communism, just socialism bro
Definitely nothing to doom about. Dooming like that is silly online-left junk anyway.
And even if hypothetically it was only 5% having a reasonable definition, the simple fact that 53% identify support for socialism and nearly a third identify with communism is useful and far better than one might have assumed. I went out drinking last month with random young adult strangers from a public event and of a group of 5, four of us revealed we were socialists. Wasn't even in a particularly progressive area.
It's extremely positive for our future. This is the reason we've seen things like anti-capitalist text get banned in schools. They KNOW that socialism is wildly popular among the next generations and it scares them. They're willing to take the country into a black period of reaction in order to crack down on it. The turn we're seeing towards support for farage and the far right in the media is in my opinion a pre-emptive strike driven by their fears socialists are gaining popular support. Their fears aren't mistaken if the numbers are accurate too.