This is the first time I’ve said anything vaguely Marxist to my friends. Idk, I don’t know where else to talk about this kind of stuff.
I managed to do it with two of my friends, and another one is sympathetic towards it and does not eat Western propaganda shit.
My advice is for you to discuss Marxism with another Marxist friend in front of the non Marxist one, the dialogue and numerical superiority will make them think the ideas make more sense.
How to Win Friends and Influence People towards Communism.
To do that, I’d have to both find another Marxist and manage to convince both parties to want to meet. Maybe someday.
Fair enough. :(
Only thing i would recommend from personal experience is to try and find word substitutions for the more “technical” terms that could be offputting or confusing to “normies”. Don’t use “proletarian” and “bourgeoisie”, use “workers”/“working class”/“the employees” and “owners”/“corporate elites”/“millionaires and billionaires”/“ruling class” or something like that. Most people are very receptive to the ideas themselves, and they instinctively understand even fairly complex Marxist concepts, especially if they have personal experience being exploited, but the messaging has to be packaged in more generic populist terms for people who have been subjected to a lot of anti-communist indictrination, otherwise it can trigger a kind of mental tripwire and they just shut down and stop listening to what you’re actually saying.
Of course it depends on your interlocutor what kind of language they will respond to most favorably, and there is a time and place for technical jargon too, but regardless i’m a big believer in the idea that if you really understand a subject well you should be able to use simple language to explain it to a layperson.
100 years ago, lenin walked on the earth, he spoke with all types of people from the most different nations, on the most different languages, and they all heared him. Now, we walk on an earth where language is the least of our problems, we need to deal now with idiotized and infantilized people, that haved their minds corroded by lies, instead of learning languages, we need to learn different ways of saying things. You only talk to an brainwashed person in a way he will be able of understand. Same with idiots, and people with no time, or people that think the way you do, but he dont want to admit it.
That makes sense. To be fair though, I was kind of looking for Marxist jargon in a conversation.
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