I tend to think the question is less ‘should EAs advocate for socialism?’, and more practically, ‘should EAs and socialists collaborate?’. Framing it in the former way is only going to highlight the very real differences between both movements. We can learn from the history of leftist disunity that historically, leftist movements have been strongest when they focus on finding ways to collaborate rather than persuading each other of their exact flavour of the ideology.
I think the collaboration between EA and existing animal welfare ideologies is a great template for what I mean here.
I tend to think the question is less ‘should EAs advocate for socialism?’, and more practically, ‘should EAs and socialists collaborate?’. Framing it in the former way is only going to highlight the very real differences between both movements. We can learn from the history of leftist disunity that historically, leftist movements have been strongest when they focus on finding ways to collaborate rather than persuading each other of their exact flavour of the ideology.
I think the collaboration between EA and existing animal welfare ideologies is a great template for what I mean here.