Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Liberty Vault" channel.

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  5.  @chickenlover657  One of the things about socialist thinking is that socialism is an evolving phenomenon based on the idea of the dialectic. Marx's brand of socialism is the product of the socialist ideas that came before him. To be socialist does NOT mean that you're Marxist. Socialism comes in various guises. Mussolini was a socialist but had different socialist ideas than Lenin and Lenin, the Bolshevik, had different ideas than the rival socialist Mensheviks. Today's socialist are different again than Marxists, who emphasised class as the great divider of society. American socialists don't do that due to the fact that socialists 50 to 60 years ago concluded that the western workers were not about to foster revolution because things were going to well for them. So they changed their emphasis to identity, namely race, gender or sexuality. Same claims of oppression and inequality but from a different viewpoint. "We have nothing to lose but our chains" has been a slogan of the radical socialist for over 150 years among others. Orwell spoke about Party slogans in his writings, especially in his books "Animal Farm" and "1984". That was over 70 years ago. They're still using them. In Lenin's time it was the "class struggle", and "workers taking over the means of production". Now it's "white supremacy", "white fragility", "Diversity, equity and inclusion". Different slogans for different times. Thoughtlessly repeated with no need to think about it. The slogan is the truth, until a "new truth" is revealed. No need to talk further than that. The truth, their truth, is self evident until we need a "new truth". That's the sloganeering. They didn't have the communication apparatus like we do today so they don't have the number of slogans and catch-phrases that we do now. However, it doesn't negate the mindset of the simplistic summation to be explanation enough for complex socialist ideas. It's enough to repeat the slogan. The rest, to their mind, is just window dressing.
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