Listen to this spew:
Not to be confused for a totalitarian nostalgist, I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capital’s stranglehold over politics and culture.
Um... Bitch, the pilgrims who first came here started with socialism and basically nearly wiped themselves out with it. They learned that human nature doesn’t work that way, and individual success promotes community success and a functioning way of life. It promotes law obedience and effort. Socialism encourages breaking the law as well as laziness, and discouraging effort and hard work. So they naturally evolved to individualism, which is at the base of capitalism.
That is the line that I was going to comment on too. We have two choices with "commodifying" labor: people can voluntarily pay individuals to work, while those individuals voluntarily work for the pay offered, or a socialist government (or equivalent slave owner) can use force to compel individuals to work as ordered for the amount they are told to accept.
I like freedom, so I absolutely reject socialism. I will not survive that transition in our country - live free or die. This is not something where a vote to "try socialism" would be legitimate. This is something where the all too likely eventual vote for socialism will require extreme government/union/thug force to compel all normal, productive people to serve the ever-growing parasite class that always appears to leech off those who are foolish and weak enough to serve as slaves.