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I'm not saying crypto-communism, I'm saying don't lead with it.
Imagine you're a door salesman and you lead with selling communism instead of saying something you 100% know people already agree with. One gets you in the door while the other gets the door slammed in your face. Meet people where they're at.
of course we can be strategic with language use when agitating, but i still disagree with your suggestion that anybody "drop left/right language". that strikes me as ceding language definitions to liberal ones which i think is always a mistake. the goal should be to educate people so they can see through the liberal/right wing occlusions of political language and frameworks, not to engage with those as if they are legitimate.