I've made it a point before, but marxism being perceived as anti-religion or an idelogy that persecutes religious observance is a legitimate barrier to a lot of otherwise very reachable people. Like, I know quite a lot of very religious people, and none of them will even contemplate anything like organizing with the left, because they believe that if the left comes into power, their mosque will get shut down and they will be thrown in jail. They will agree with anything I say about the nature of imperialism, liberalism being hollow, the concept of human rights being mostly western mental masturbation, as well as other ML critiques, but they still bristle like an animal the second you mention anything about AES, or socialism in general.
I've made it a point before, but marxism being perceived as anti-religion or an idelogy that persecutes religious observance is a legitimate barrier to a lot of otherwise very reachable people. Like, I know quite a lot of very religious people, and none of them will even contemplate anything like organizing with the left, because they believe that if the left comes into power, their mosque will get shut down and they will be thrown in jail. They will agree with anything I say about the nature of imperialism, liberalism being hollow, the concept of human rights being mostly western mental masturbation, as well as other ML critiques, but they still bristle like an animal the second you mention anything about AES, or socialism in general.