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I gave up on trying to persuade anticommunists long ago. You can benefit lurkers by deconstructing anticommunists’ arguments, but your chances of actually getting anticommunists to question their own politics are quite low.
Your time would be better spent assisting strikers, helping the homeless, donating a dollar to a good cause, or simply studying more. You cannot help those who won’t help theirselves. Capitalism’s increasing pressure on lower-class people like us is what is mainly going to drive many into questioning anticommunism, not conversation.
If you still think that attempting to persuade casual anticommunists is worthwhile then you would do well to borrow the classic rabbinic tradition of discouraging an interested party three times. Just don’t actively seek out recruits, especially if they are upper-class or petty bourgeois. There are better things that you could be doing.
Seems pretty contrary to building a mass movement.
I think the better approach is to talk about leftist approaches to political issues whenever those issues pop up, just don't push too hard/get into struggle sessions. That doesn't convince anyone and it only exhausts you. Put another perspective on the table besides capitalist realism and talk to people to the extent they're interested.