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You didn't back up that claim with anything other than vibes, though. Further, politics isn't a tug-of-war, if people firmly disagree with communism, a communist explaining the communist viewpoint with (generally) a level-head isn't pushing them away, it's the communism, full-stop. The fact that the absolute number of comrades has risen due to my interactions means it's a net positive.
Secondly, I can define communism, it's a stateless, classless, moneyless society where production and distribution is collectivized and based on satisfying the needs of everyone.
Edit: to respond to your edit:
Communists have learned good party structure, how to democratize the economy, and the usefulness of implementing controlled market forces in underdeveloped countries as a means to rapidly increase the productive forces. China, for example, is massively improving quality of life year over year, and was one of the poorest countries on the planet only a century ago.
I don't need to, I'm not the one focusing all my energy on converting people to communism without having any evidence of whether my methods are actually effective, or indeed, whether communism itself is effective.
Hahaha it's like when the CCP exterminated all the sparrows in China to protect the crops. It wasn't until millions of people started dying from starvation that they realized sparrows actually play a major role in controlling insect populations, and their idiotic extermination campaign had the opposite effect of what they intended. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree I guess. Shoot first ask questions later mindset.
Oh, or it's also like when the CCP instituted the one-child policy, only to belatedly realize decades later that they had inadvertently created a massive demographic crisis that has only begun to unfold recently. It's almost like blind adherence to ideology to the exclusion of one's ability to dispassionately examine the available evidence causes one to make bad, self-destructive decisions. Who knew? Certainly not communists.
Citation needed
Gotcha, you just wanted a place to practice your poetry and go on a polemic against me devoid of substance.
As for killing the sparrows during widespread weather disaster, it's widely recognized as a critical failure. Is your point that communism is bad if communists ever make a mistake? Life expectancy still managed to double under Mao, that's how horribly underdeveloped China was, and a famine under those circumstances of underdevelopment was something common prior to the communists. It was the work of the communists that stopped famine for good in China.
Not doxxing the users who have thanked me directly in DMs or publicly. You know that it's nonzero, if that's not "good enough" for you then that's your decision.
Having not read much theory, I have found your comments about communism and geopolitics helpful and insightful, thanks.
No problem, thank you so much!
If you want, I actually have an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, feel free to give it a look if you want to familiarize yourself more with Marxism-Leninism!