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Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Side Effects of Socialism (with Claudia De la Cruz)

Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales

Education, Self-improvement

4.89.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk to activist and former presidential nominee Claudia De la Cruz about the crimes of capitalism, what socialism and communism really means, and how to imagine a better United States.

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0:00.0

Small doses.

0:04.6

Self help from the hit.

0:06.0

Small doses.

0:07.1

We're talking at shit.

0:08.6

Small doses.

0:09.8

And keeping it real.

0:11.2

Small doses.

0:12.4

With me and Amanda Seals.

0:14.1

It's so funky.

0:16.6

We're back.

0:17.8

It's another episode of Small Doses podcast.

0:20.4

I'm Amanda Seals. And the political climate in the United States is just every day so overwhelming. That being said, a lot of words are being placed into people's zeitgeist on a more regular basis than I think they are

0:39.8

accustomed to. And one of those words is socialism. So as we find ourselves in the throes of a

0:46.1

fascist dictatorship taking over, people are throwing out words like socialism on a regular basis.

0:52.4

And a lot of times that people throwing out those words are the fascist dictators because

0:56.4

they know that the word socialism and communism have been really very successfully indoctrinated

1:04.1

as having negative connotations for Americans.

1:07.9

And this has been going on for years and years and years and years. People don't even know why they feel some type of way when they hear the word socialism. They don't even know why they feel some type of way when they hear the word communism. They just hear those words and think enemy. They hear those words and think opposite or danger or something counter to what they would want for themselves.

1:31.6

We see this in the way that Republicans love to say that Democrats are socialist leftists.

1:37.5

First of all, Democrats are absolutely far from being socialist leftists.

1:41.5

But the consideration of what a socialist leftist is is something that you should be doing.

1:46.6

Because if they're saying that they're so terrible that they're the opposite of them,

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