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"Don't say the word COMMUNISM!" — Should we lie to win? (youtu.be)

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One of the most common questions we get is whether or not we should "hide our power level" when it comes to our political positions. In this video, we look at the words and practice of Karl Marx, Fred Hampton, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Harvey Milk to tackle the question: should we hide our true positions as we build our movement?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of All Countries, Unite!

-- last paragraph of the Communist Manifesto

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.

What part of this means you have to say "communism", your views and aims are probably not saying a word so if your politics have a chance to be popular but your political identity does not maybe focus on the former. Notice how anti-immigration fascists don't say they're fascists nor that they're doing fascism when they're doing stuff that's popular like deporting migrants.

We're not in 1848. "Never ever be subversive" has never been an objective principle of communist strategy, nor recognized as universally good political tactics, if it's worth doing you do it.

In most people's imagination "Communism" is a thing that already happened and mostly ended, whatever changes the world is going to be called something else even if it retains the same views and aims.

I think you just did the thing where one provides a quote and lazily confuses principles with strategy.