it's the best thing the average person could do right now

The best thing the average person could do would be to join a communist organization

and study theory

and what will that achieve?

and then spread that to others.

the revolution will not come in my lifetime

Building the foundation for a future revolutionary change.

nor the decades after mine

I mean, you don't know that

when the October Revolution happened no one thought it was possible

outside the Bolsheviks, obviously.

Americans are leaning left, so if a revolution is to occur, it will occur through time, regardless

the best thing is to introduce political reforms to ease suffering in the meantime

even small steps mean a lot

And, on top of that, no one thought the tiny Red army could fight off invaders from a shitload of capitalist countries AS WELL AS get rid of the bourgeois provisional government, but it did.

No, if you try to produce political reforms you will waste your time

Your time is better spent convincing others to become communists

there's nothing else worthwhile to do

that should be the only focus, is spreading communism

people will lean left if I, for example, argue for universal coverage

spread it everywhere. school, unis, unions, communities, etc.

and if they are convinced, they will lean left

You can do that as a communist

if I argue for communism, many people I could have reached would shun me

simply because of anti communism in America

so it is best to do it subtly

The overwhelming majority of people would benefit

That's why you just call yourself a socialist.

overwhelming majority would tune me out

Then by the time people have been brought to your side they will find out for themselves

they won't

Yes

they will only be brought to the left subtly

they would

That's not true at all

most Americans will not

Do you live in America?

Because you have to raise class consciousness

Yes.

communism is looked with similar distaste to nazism by many people

That's rapidly changing.

How can you influence people if most people would think you were an idiot?

Instead, if you argue for universal coverage, you bring people to the left, albeit subtly

and then it is easier to argue from that vantage point

Most people wouldn't think so if you explained your position like a rational human being and if you advocate for policies like single payer or free tuition.

I would argue now more than ever is the right time to promote communism.

People already are extremely distrustful of the mainstream media

You know, that is true. But it should be done peacefully

so if they already distrust the media, then it's easy to convince them that they've been lied to (they have been) by the bourgeois government.

so that communists look better than the far right right now

The capitalists are not peaceful

who is also taking the opportunity to spread rhetoric

they use the state apparatus to crush dissent.

If ANTIFA went out to feed homeless, how many more supporters would they gain?

They coerce people to sell their labor power to them.

Night chat is best chat.

Probably a lot.

Then they should focus on that

The thing about Antifa is that Antifa =/= all communists

good PR

they're mostly anarchists

which, as you know, like to smash things.

which looks bad for the left

but yes, I agree that talking about communism should increase

A Leninist party could present itself as better organized (we are) and smarter in how we agitate (we are).

because it is in a blank state even on the internet

the far right has has a choke hold on the internet right now

in many, many areas

and the rate their influence is expanding is concerning

yet I see little to no counterattack from communists

eh

I mean, they have also suffered loses

namely steve bannon getting fucked my kushner

or their posterboy Richard Spencer being turned into a living meme.

pretty hilarious tbh

And we have the Jimmy Dore show, Agressive Progressive, TYT, RT America, Sane Progressive, etc. who are bringing people to the left more

but we need more than that, I agree

We need communists

open in their views

unashamed in their views

loud, in the open, agitating for workers in the class struggle

to quote marx

I think America would be one of the harder areas for communism to grow

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in
power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism,
against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a
power.
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world,
publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the
Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

American culture really emphasizes moving up in the social order

It also emphasizes freedom

We could use that to our advantage.

Highlight how socialism gives the individual infinitely more freedom than capitalism.

Americans also really hate taxes

In a socialist system there would be barely any, if any at all, income taxes for most people.

Because profits, instead of going to one person at the top, is usually redistributed to fund the programs that workers would have to pay for in taxes under capitalism.

That would be a point to be emphasized, because many Americans associate socialism with heavy taxation

Exactly.

Because many americans think socialism = the government funds/does stuff

Cenk Uygurism

Ancaps often talk about bureaucratic inefficiency in an extremely centralized state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRM9PdDf3zA

watch this it's funny

Uphold Cenk Uygurist thought

if you want to argue with them