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Weeks ago, the university students appeared at the city squares of Pakistan to raise their concerns. Clad in red, they were chanting in rhythmic notes the chunks from the poems of rebel poets whose poetry disseminates the message of revolution.

The posture of the students amazed many. Some called them socialists, while others termed them liberals.

Many ask whose agenda they are on. The important point is whether they are on some agenda or they are ideologically motivated ones, they have managed to resuscitate the debate symbolizing red colour.

But there is a confusion as to what these students are exhibiting are they liberals, communists or socialists? Let us strive to clear the dust gathered around the thought being propounded by the students.

Simply put, there is a need to clarify the terms like liberalism, communism and socialism to reach reality.

Liberalism is a philosophy which promotes endeavours to remove obstacles in the way of individuals liberty. The obstacles are poverty, ignorance, disease and social discrimination, which impede an individuals will to live freely. In so doing, liberalism may remain within the ambit of a capitalist polity having a free competitive market.

Communism commands disbanding the capitalist structure, which produces unevenness in society. In contrast, socialism does not dismantle the existing structure. It readily adjusts itself under already present political format it could also be a capital set-up seeking to liberate the proletariats from the totalitarian policies of the ruling class. Thus, socialism does not necessarily endorse collision with capitalism. That is why political parties of Pakistan have been nurturing socialist agenda speaking for the rights of labour-class.

Let us now travel down to the history-lane to ascertain reality.

The seeds of socialism can be traced even before the partition of the sub-continent. The ideology sneaked into the region along with Red Revolution in Russia. Peshawar Conspiracy Cases that befell between 1922-27 and the Kanpur Bolshevik Case of May 1924 provide a peep into the efforts to bring socialism in revolt to the British imperialism.

After Pakistan came into being, Pakistan Socialist Party (PSP) could not create ripples in the face of conservative parties which had just supported the creation of Pakistan on the basis of religion.

The Communist Party, in contrast, was able to win over the farmers and the labourers as it participated actively in labour strikes and language protests in the early 1950s. In 1954, it formed the government with the backing of Awami Party in East Pakistan. Soon in the wake of clashes between police and the Communist Party, Sikandar Mirza imposed the first martial law on 7 October 1958.

During the Ayub era, the dissenting voices were considerably curbed. But following the Tashkent Declaration, the atmosphere in Pakistan turned antagonistic to President Ayub. Socialist elements again woke up from their snooze. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was shrewd enough to capture the direction of the veering winds, and thus founded Pakistan Peoples Party whose manifesto, Islam is our religion, democracy is our politics, socialism is our economy, and power lies with the people, was written by a Bengali communist, J.A. Rahim.

The PPPs massive land reforms, nationalization campaign and efforts to abolish feudalism pleased the working class, which joined the party in flocks.

Despite having similar ideologies, the PPP could not get close to the Red Shirts movement of Abdul Ghaffar Khan because of his looking at Pakistan through the prism of Afghanistan.

In General Zias epoch, the left-wing activists formed a Struggle Group to resist the repression of the military government. The group, soon, started publishing a magazine, Jidd-o-Jehed, which carried the revolutionary poems of Habib Jalib, Ahmad Fraz and Faiz Ahmad Faiz. In 1984, the poem, Main Baghi Hun written by Khalid Javed Jan became a symbol of struggle against the dictatorial reign of General Zia.

On the heels of 9/11 debacle and Pakistans joining as the front line ally of the US, the socialist strain made its presence felt from the art and cultural platforms through theatres, peace conferences, songs and literature. Literary festivals at Karachi Arts Council and Alhamra Hall Lahore apprised the people of the work of poets and writers who spur the masses for social reforms away from the shackles of fascism.

The recent rise of students activities is not an outcome of some abrupt outpouring; rather, the continuation of a socialist thought that has been appearing in every political phase of Pakistan.

But where does the problem lie? Why does these students ideology not have acceptance in our society?

The answer is that there has always been the idea of socialism being anti-religion; whereas it is to be understood that socialism may make an adjustment with already existing frameworks.

Another reason for not having acceptability is the culture of free mixing of both genders in the demonstrations. The optics of girls and boys shouting revolution being in proximity for many is outrageous in Pakistan, which still is dominated by conservatives.

Last but not least, in rising for the rights of the working class, the current movements biggest flaw may be to get aligned with the organizations having an inordinate anti-army stance. Lessons could be learnt from the postures of the nascent PPP in the 1970s which distanced itself from the National Awami Partys pro-Afghan manoeuvrings. Then it also raised the slogan of Islamic Socialism to create its acceptability in an otherwise conservative society.

If these issues are properly dealt with, the current movement may produce its inlets in Pakistans socio-political milieu, or else, it is likely to meet the same fate as the efforts in the past have faced.

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Rail gardens a great idea

Re: Urban farm sprouts up along rail DART teams with nonprofits to plant community gardens, Monday Metro story.

Love this article! I ride trains a lot in Europe and at the edge of towns and cities I see many garden plots along the tracks; most complete with small tool sheds, some even with decorative window boxes. Urban farms along the rails: what a great idea.

Shirley Lewis, Arlington

Re: Reverchon ballpark revival strikes out, by Robert Wilonsky, Friday Metro & Business column.

I am so disgusted with the city of Dallas. No wonder it keeps losing people. Ive kept abreast of this issue and am very disappointed. How is it the city can have freeway parks and not allow an intercity park to exist? Maybe council member Adam Medrano or others have something in their pocket.

This would be a great place for citizens in these and other areas to enjoy with their families. Dallas, do not allow this to happen! I am not resident of Dallas (I used to be), but am still concerned that all be equally shared especially since all Dallas appears to do is appeal to the rich and young. They forget that it took the older generation to get where it is today.

Marie C. Hogeda, Grand Prairie

The impeachment articles and pending trial are misguided, and not just because it is doomed in a GOP-controlled Senate. What the Democrats fail to grasp is that Trump is not the problem. He is a symptom. Trump is exactly what he has always been, exactly what anyone should have expected. To keep attacking Trump is counter-productive and energizes his supporters. Not only will impeachment fail, but acquittal will embolden Trump to take further liberties, and will also probably lead to his re-election.

The questions that the Democratic National Committee and Democratic congressional leaders should be addressing are: What are the beliefs, attitudes and conditions that facilitated his election in the first place? What do the 40%+ who approve of and defend his actions believe? What message can be formulated that will provide a clear vision of how things should and can be better?

A primary focus in my work experience was that you dont just complain about poor performance or a bad situation, you present a plan to fix things. That should be the Democrats primary focus: present something voters can believe in and rally around, something that will win at the polls. If they dont or cant do that, Trump wins.

John Gahan, McKinney

Re: Query a question of politics Texans Are you a socialist or a capitalist? is a new spin on old GOP tactic, Monday news story.

Congressman Roger Williams kept asking banking CEOs if they were capitalists or socialist. Wait, they get loans from the federal government at the fed rate (socialism) and complain when they get reeled in for literally gambling with that and investors money (sub-prime lending)? Then, we bailed them out (more socialism).

Williams cites socialist states of Venezuela and Russia, both of which are corrupt. As for Cuba, they are doing surprisingly well given the near obscene restrictions we put on them for overthrowing a corrupt government over 50 years ago.

We have a lot of socialism in the U.S. Fire, police, education, parks, roads, military, Social Security and tax breaks for corporations all fit the description. Are we going to privatize or eliminate it all, or shall we stick with some socialism?

John C. Jacobs, Carrollton

Instead of bringing up terms that incite emotional reactions as is being done by the far-right Republicans, lets ask that question another way. Do we want the laws of this country written to ensure that everyone who is willing to work hard and is able to find a job that pays a living wage will share in the results of the marketplace or do we want to let those who have little conscience and are overly ambitious and/or greedy reap 99% of it?

LeRoy White, Denton

Re: 2 Texas Dems will vote aye Reps. Allred and Fletcher are facing tough races in 2020," Sunday news story.

Texas Reps Lizzie Fletcher and Colin Allred and now Michigans Elissa Slotkin also have made courageous decisions to vote in favor of impeachment, even though they are aware that a significant number of constituents will disapprove of their decisions. They are upholding their sworn oath of office, made by every elected official on both sides of the aisle, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

I believe the evidence of the presidents offenses against his oath of office is overwhelming, and I call on my own Rep. Kenny Marchant, and other members of Congress both Democrats and Republicans to follow the example of Allred, Fletcher and Slotkin, even if it jeopardizes their re-election.

This is one of those times when standing up for principle is necessary, even if it carries significant personal cost. Standing bravely together in defense of the principle that the power of the presidency must not be hijacked for personal gain would restore some faith in our battered institutions and provide some healing in our current time of polarization. Wouldnt it be a splendid reuniting if both Democrats and Republicans stood together?

Eulaine Hall, Northwest Dallas

As I write this, I am on my way to see my 92-year-old father, who is a disabled veteran of two wars and a man who loves his country. For the first time in decades, I will be able to tell him I am being represented in the House by a representative who cares more about the people of Texas than about the bribes he is getting from businessmen and maybe even Vladimir Putin.

I am grateful for Colin Allreds vote to impeach Donald Trump, the symptom of the cancer of greed in the Republican Party. I will never support another member of the corrupt GOP.

Alicea Lynn Fletcher, University Park

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For once, Labour has been quick off the mark. It is only 10 days since the party lost a fourth consecutive general election and it is already preparing for its next defeat.

Despite the obvious truth that Jeremy Corbyn must take the blame for the worst result in almost 100 years, Rebecca Long Bailey, his anointed successor, is the favourite to succeed him as party leader. Her election would be the public statement that Corbyn has gone but Corbynism lives on.

Labour supporters, who want to win the next election, should not despair. The partys future success, perhaps even its survival, depends on the genuine democratic socialists in the parliamentary party seizing control of the political agenda. The elevation of Long Bailey would provide an early opportunity to demonstrate that they mean business.

The cause would be best served by an outright refusal to accept the imposition of a leader who does not command their confidence. A formal protest with a recorded vote would be almost as effective. Emboldened, they must then insist that the shadow cabinet is, once again, elected giving its members an independent authority that they would not possess as the leaders nominees. With their status restored, they would be free to challenge the strategy and tactics of both the leader and the advisers who, with Corbyn, must take some of the blame for the bloodbath of black Thursday and are, even now, arranging to remain surrogate leaders in the new regime.

Labour MPs are notorious for their reluctance to fight the ideological battle for democratic socialism. The common response to the complaint that they have watched, but not opposed, the triumphant progress of the far left is the claim that at least they stayed and fought. More often than not, they stayed without fighting.

If they fight now they will, of course, be accused of splitting the party. In truth they will be preventing, or at worst postponing, the real split that is bound to follow a further drift to the unelectable left. The second accusation will be the creation of a party within a party. A distinct and separate party of the far left has been a cuckoo in Labours nest ever since Ed Milibands invention of cut-price membership. Men and women who had spent long, dark nights outside Labour meetings hawking revolutionary newspapers came in from the cold bringing their sectarian intolerance with them.

They became the pathfinders for the most extensive and, it must be admitted, most successful takeover bid in Labour history. At its heart was Momentum, which began life under the guise of Corbyns Praetorian Guard but swiftly evolved into a vehicle for moving the party to what turned out to be the unelectable left. Momentum infiltrated constituency parties, enrolled enough delegates to successive annual conferences to gain a stranglehold on party policy, took effective control of Labours national executive committee and attempted with a measure of success to deselect Labour MPs who did not share its prejudices. Momentum found natural allies in recent conversions from Marxist and Trotskyite factions who, encouraged by the hope of colonising a real and functioning political party, suddenly saw the light.

Compared with Momentum, the Militant tendency which attempted to subvert Labour in the 1980s was a ragbag of second-rate conspirators who took corrupt control of Liverpool but were only an irritant in other parts of the country. No Militant sympathisers were employed in the Labour party headquarters or in its regional offices, and no major trade union leader supported Militants aims. Now full-time officials openly boast of their Momentum membership. Militant remained an obscure sect.

Thanks in part to Momentum, the Corbyn project was endorsed by thousands of good democratic socialists. The radical rhetoric obscured the fatal flaws of Corbyns philosophy the blanket opposition to private enterprise, the support for any tinpot dictator who called himself a socialist, the intolerance of disagreement, the failure to cleanse Labour of antisemitism which proved that, although he hated racial prejudice, there were some racial prejudices that he did not hate enough. There is no doubt that there is still an army of Labour party members who cannot bring themselves to believe that the Corbyn project was destined to end in disaster. They have to be persuaded that Corbyns way could only ever lead to the disappointment of defeat and the betrayal of the millions of families who need a Labour government. No doubt Momentums leaders are still rejoicing about the control they achieved over the party machine. The celebrations are not being replicated in the food bank queues that, following Labours defeat, will only lengthen.

Before the brilliance of Neil Kinnocks Bournemouth conference speech in 1985 extinguished the hopes of Militant, outriders spent two years preparing the ground for his final assault. For Labour to become a party of government again it needs another army of genuine democratic socialist MPs mounting a similar onslaught on the great ideals false friends. Their task will be more than the recruitment of new party members to become a counterweight to infiltrators from the unelectable extremes. They must convince floating voters that democratic socialism is alive, well and ready to wake from its slumbers and is worth voting for. Thanks to the Corbyn project, few people believe that today.

It may be that the parliamentary party is not in a mood to heed the calls to arms. The self-styled moderates have always suffered from an excess of caution. But if there is to be a fight, have no doubt that the real democratic socialists will occupy the high ground.

We are the apostles of true equality and the personal freedom that it must sustain. And we offer the politics of hope not empty slogans about the better world we hope to build but a real chance of bringing it about. A genuine democratic socialist party can win elections. The time has come to rise up against all who stand in our way.

Roy Hattersley served in James Callaghans cabinet and later became deputy leader of the Labour party

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We fought Militant in the 1980s. The far lefts hold is now much worse - The Guardian

The name was on the tip of our tongues.

Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner suggested Harold Wilson, but neither of us thought that sounded quite right.

We were chatting in Parliament trying to remember who said: The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Yes, us political anoraks really do stand around having that kind of conversation.

Perhaps we need to get a life.

The answer was Nye Bevan, founder of the NHS, and the Labour Partys greatest post-war hero.

As Labour begins its soul searching over why everything went so catastrophically wrong , first indications suggest not giving voters clear priorities for government played its part in stopping Jeremy Corbyn forming one.

Was it nationalisation of public services and utilities? A huge job on its own.

Or free full-fibre broadband for all at a cost of 20billion?

Or compensation for the Waspi women for lost pensions at 58billion?

While certain promises were attractive - up to 31,000 for 3.8million Waspis was tempting indeed - the package as a whole seemed an undeliverable mishmash of wildly expensive goodies.

So it wasnt just Corbyns honest broker Brexit position which Nye anticipated 20 years before the UK even joined the Common Market when he said: People who stay in the middle of the road get run down.

Blaming Brexit for defeat is like citing the Falklands for the failure of Labours last foray into red in tooth and claw socialism under Michael Foot.

In 2019, as in 1983, the voters gave the offer of socialist revolution two fingers.

Britain does not want it and the next Labour leader must grasp that.

Nyes creation of the welfare state in 1948 was very much about priorities, and top of the list was universal health care free at the point of use which changed everyones life.

Winston Churchill might have motivated the voters in wartime, but he failed to prepare for peace.

They returned from battle knowing what theyd fought against, but unsure of the kind of country they were fighting for because Churchill never told them.

It was the 1945 Labour government which showed the way, by making the nation voters came home to better than the one they left.

If Labour is not to be out in the cold for a decade its new leader cannot rely on a strategy of one more push to create a socialist paradise.

The message of hope must be credible.

Bevan also said: Toryism is organised spivvery.

For the next five years we must endure Spiv-in-Chief Boris Johnson as organiser.

But Labour must not allow five to turn into ten.

I was Christmas shopping and piles of Greta Thunberg books were everywhere.

Theres Gretas speeches and Gretas memoirs.

Not bad for a 16 year old.

Cant be long now before we get Gretas Vegan Cookbook, Gretas Keep Fit, and Weather Forecasting with Greta.

While I find the teenagers hectoring irritating I do now buy her climate change message as the planet faces its sixth mass extinction.

The first, 439 million years ago caused by glaciation, wiped out 86 per cent of life, while the third due to volcanic eruptions, was worse, killing 96 per cent of living things.

And 65 million years ago No5 was a monster asteroid which did in the dinosaurs.

This paved the way for us.

And even before the wheel was invented wed driven half the planets big beasts to extinction.

Time to stop being ecological serial killers destroying 200 species a day.

And while I shall still drive, fly and eat meat I resolve, Greta, to recycle more in 2020.

Fridays Withdrawal Bill vote means we are now on course to leave the EU on 31st January.

Tories credit that ability for their election success, while Labour MPs moan how Brexit cost them votes.

But what they all agree on is that they never, ever want to campaign in the depths of winter again.

To hear them talk last week youd think theyd just returned from an expedition to the North Pole.

So theyre jumping for joy at the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliament Act which sets election dates every five years.

It means the poor lambs wont have to wade through snow, ice and drizzle in December, 2024.

The FTPA was only introduced by David Cameron in 2011 to reassure Lib Dem coalition partners he wouldnt stab them in the back by suddenly scuttling to the polls.

Another chunk of Daves legacy Boris Johnson is delighted to strip away.

Tory whip Stuart Andrew told me: I got through six weeks of the election without a cross word with my partner.

"Then we fell out putting up the Christmas tree.

The shepherd boy in the St Mildreds Church, Tenterden, Kent crib scene drew crowds because of his uncanny resemblance to Boris Johnson.

Rev Canon Lindsay Hammond reassured his flock: The shepherd boy is safely in the care of a grown-up shepherd.

Pity we cant say the same of our PM.

MPs returned to the Commons with entertaining Tales of Spoiled Ballot Papers which theyre allowed to check at counts.

Tory Alec Shelbrooke had one defaced with: Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide.

But best was the one spotted by Romseys Caroline Nokes on which was written: Not voting for this evil, stupid woman!!

But those !!s were in the box where the X goes. So counted as a vote for Caroline.

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Nelson's Column: why the end could be Nye for Labour's socialist revolution - Mirror Online

I want people to get a fuller story of the political situation thats out there, and jokes and memes have always left me in a place where Im like, Oh, that made me laugh, and then, Why did that make me laugh? Let me investigate what this things about.

Posted on December 17, 2019, at 2:09 p.m. ET

Young leftists are breaking down the points behind their political ideology on TikTok to make it easier for the next generation of voters to understand and get pulled into socialism.

Leftist TikTok creators are booming on the platform, putting out content in just the last month that has collectively amassed hundreds of thousands of views and sparked conversations with other users about leftist movements. For some, creators told BuzzFeed News, TikTok is just an entry point to combat what they see as a battle between the populist left and right for the next generation of voters.

Yo yo yo! Inviting yall to the motherfuckin revolution, Gem Nwanne said in their rendition of a TikTok trend where creators parody party announcements over bars of a Chief Keef song. Location? Around the world. Time? Right the fuck now! Cost? Your privilege. We talkin BYO skillset! No cops!

In another TikTok posted a little over a week later, Nwanne hopped on another trend where they danced to a clip of I Gets Crazy, a deep-cut Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne song, while listing out the stages of radical politicization. In the clip, Nwanne bops to the song as the different stages of radicalized political thought pop up onscreen. In the 10 second clip, all full-time workers should be able to afford food and shelter quickly progresses into take back the means of production, eat the rich & secure the safety of all people as Nwanne dances more erratically. The video has over 195,000 views and 40,000 likes.

Those audio and video give creators the freedom to twist and riff for a moment of virality, thousands of likes, or hopefully a few thousand follows from the millions of people that have logged onto the app.

Nwanne said that when they first started using TikTok, they only wanted to use it to watch memes. Their friends had told them it was a funny, lighthearted space on the internet similar to Vine, which had shut down in early 2017.

Since Nwanne started making their own TikToks in early November, theyve already grown their account to over 14,000 followers. They joined the ranks of a number of other leftist creators whove been making content about leftist ideology, dragging presidential candidates and their supporters dances, and supporting candidates like Bernie Sanders (whose hashtags, like #bernie2020, have over 30,000,000 views on the app).

I noticed that there was this whole coalition of Gen-Z thats doing political content, and theres a whole other side of TikTok thats extremely conservative, I mean literal cops. I noticed there was a lack of diversity among the people that were making this political content, said Nwanne. They werent talking about race and they werent talking about queerness. They werent talking to my people.

Nwanne, a former college Republican and a former member of Democratic Socialists of America, said their motivation for their TikTok is to break down the ideas behind socialism and leftist politics to get people interested and make them as accessible as possible for younger people who might not know that their political ideas just might be the basis of a leftist ideology.

The idea is to break these things down into the smallest bits, use accessible language, put them to music, get something to look at and smile at, and make jokes, said Nwanne. Its explaining these concepts without all of the academia. I think the thing that keeps so many people of color and working-class people away from leftist ideas is how theyre presented, and my entire goal was to make this stuff as accessible as possible.

Other TikTok creators told BuzzFeed News that theyd noticed more teens on the app posting content about anti-capitalist positions, even though they might not be specifically speaking from a position of someone whos done research about democratic socialism or leftist politics. Jokes about eating the rich and critiques of billionaires like Bill Gates have gone viral on the platform.

Just replace the government with TikTok teens, reads one tweet of a popular TikTok video. In it, a teenager visits a website that lets you spend Gates money and notices that no spending makes a significant dent in his wealth. The video wraps with the teen telling the camera, and then theres me telling myself not to buy food on my lunch break at work to save some money. The videos been retweeted 92,000 times and has been viewed 5.5 million times.

Isra Hirsi, the cofounder of the US Youth Climate Strike and the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, hopped on a trend where creators dance to the chorus of a Flo Milli song. While she dances under a sign that says capitalism taking ur man, the lyrics Yea bitch, I got your man, an, an! If you bad, ho, come catch him if you can, an, an loop. She then dances under signs that read insane student debt, not being able to make a living wage, and overly expensive medical bills, rent and the fear of never being financially stable as the reasons that capitalism snatched your man. Her tweet of the TikTok has been viewed over 300,000 times.

If you scroll through the #bernie2020, #socialism, or #progressive hashtags, youll find creators dancing under the question who doesnt deserve healthcare? over a photo of Sanders to Mitski repeatedly singing Nobody. Or youll see Mikhail King, a 27-year-old creator, dancing to an edited version of the cha-cha slide that keeps pushing to the left to help explain where his political leanings went as he got older.

Kings TikTok account will lead you to a series of videos that critique candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg over their health care stances, a clip using audio of Cardi B to talk about radicalizing liberals, and jokes about corporations not wanting to pay a living wage.

I want people to get a fuller story of the political situation thats out there, and jokes and memes have always left me in a place where Im like, Oh, that made me laugh, and then, Why did that make me laugh? Let me investigate what this things about, King said in an interview. My goal is to make a joke where maybe someone might not get it, but theyll look up the information and say, Oh OK, sick!

He added that he hopes the content that hes put out about candidates can make other people start to question or at least take a closer look at the positions of who they support, or to think about what a leftist candidate might be able to accomplish. King added that hes creating this content to help people figure out where they might align politically and that videos like the viral Bill Gates TikTok help people explore those options.

Because of the shared experience of economic disparity in the country, more and more of these kids, at a younger age, are exposing themselves to these arguments that are populist in nature regardless of it being right or left, King explained. Teens, like the Bill Gates girl, are doing better things, without even realizing it, I think. That video is really great at getting a point across without being like, Hey, this is a lefty position. Its like, Heres some information, do with it what you will.

Destiny Willis, a 19-year-old TikTok creator, started making content about leftist politics in early December and has already amassed over 100,000 likes on her videos. She said that because she only recently became interested in democratic socialism and leftist politics, shes found the community on TikTok to be a place to discuss those ideas and hear what other people think.

Ive always taken a humorous approach to learning and to things that upset me in general. I use humor as a coping mechanism, and as Im learning about how capitalism isnt really working for a lot of people it makes me feel anxious, it makes me angry, and sort of depressed. And my natural way of working through that is through humor, Willis said. TikTok has been really helpful with that, as lame as that might sound.

In a video thats already gotten 14,000 views, Willis milly-rocks to a Playboy Carti song as text flashes across the screen: Fixing capitalism with regulations would require those in power because of capitalism to relinquish that power. Those in power have no incentive to change a system that directly benefits them. The video ends with her asking the audience SO NOW WHAT.

In the comments of that video and others, Willis discussed the ideas around socialism and leftist politics with people whod commented on her page. Other creators are also engaging with followers whove had more questions about leftist politics. Nwanne said that theyve been putting together an accessible reading list for people who might want to learn more because of their content. Theyve already received direct messages asking for reading materials and said that theyve had discussions with followers about leftist politics on the platform.

King said that theres already a diverse set of leftist creators on the platform who are drawing people into leftist politics through memes and trends, and others whove broken down the concepts further in explainer videos that have also influenced his content.

Theres not necessarily a feedback loop between all of us, but there are creators all across the platform who have different lived experiences or perspectives, King explained. Theyre hitting notes that I might not be able to hit. It becomes a beautiful chorus of perspectives. So we have this edgy guy in the corner, theres that person whos breaking down the concepts, theres another person talking about the experiences of minority groups, and then badabing! Badaboom! Weve got ourselves a leftist coalition.

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"A Beautiful Chorus" Leftists Are Using TikTok To Break Down Socialism For The Next Generation Of Voters - BuzzFeed News