We’re supposed to be policy 1st. And yet I don’t understand the obsession with being a honorable samurai that plays by tradition. Why can’t a sheep put on the wolf’s mane when they’re greatly outnumbered and bide their time?

It’s not like the liberals would notice. They only know ideas. They’re still propagandizing shit like recycling, even though the trash bin is all thrown in the same truck and the bins with 3/4 holes aren’t even separated, same as it was 20 years ago. They should be really easy to manipulate, especially when truth is on your side, but like at least make them paranoid and unable to sleep at night.

  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 days ago

    It’s not that communists can’t or shouldn’t employ deception. Historically, when operating under conditions of repression, communists have had to use deception to evade the authorities in order to be able to continue party building activities, organizing the working class and disseminating propaganda despite all of this being outlawed.

    It’s about who you deceive. There is nothing wrong with deceiving the bourgeois state and its agents, but you should not deceive the working class. You should not build your base of support on lies. Because sooner or later the truth has to be revealed and then you will no longer be seen as trustworthy by the masses. And nothing can be achieved without the participation of the people.

    In the Communist Manifesto Marx famously wrote:

    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.

    Communists don’t have to pretend to be something we are not, because the things we fight for are objectively in the best interests of the working class. We don’t need to deceive the people. We just need to fight against the deceptions of the liberals and reactionaries.

    (Of course if, as was the case with China’s Opening Up and Reform, the imperialists deceive themselves into thinking that you have abandoned the socialist road (despite the fact that you continue to openly state that you have not), there is no need to correct them.)