Constantly trying to thread the needle of "my target audience is not other communists but "vibes based" leftists, punks, skaters, goths, etc.
Yet I am definitely not afraid to speak my mind, to be openly and unapologetically political. Yet I fear this will only end up alienating more than it will agitate or educate. We lack time, we lack will, so we need space, we can't build will without space. Space means culture, culture has been entirely co-opted by the system, thus you need to create a line of flight to the space (Deleuze), we can do this by working towards deterritorizing the "underground" (counter culture). In this way the 'brand' super structure itself can be detourned, re-worked into a rhizome, ergo "HOUDINI".
But thats all pretty heavy shit and I worry that the openly political nature of the detournément will alienate before the rhizome can grow. For example someone I consider to be one of the most important voices in the gaming space as it relates to the medium as an art form, that person offered to write some articles for the brand, to grow the rhizome so to speak.
This person is not openly political and I wonder to myself, does he not see the level of political discourse I attempt to engage in? If not, will learning of that push him away, limiting the growth and shrinking the space, thereby lowering the will?
Think about how you learned things throughout your entire existence. Honestly, do you remember how you learned to speak your first words? You were surrounded by people speaking around you, sometimes they sat you down and intentionally tried to teach you how to pronounce a word and what it referred to but most of the time you just absorbed things as a sea sponge filters out food from the ocean.
You keep doing your thing, keep having your political conversations, keep pointing out to people when their "its just common sense" statements are bullshit (you can be polite about it), and that's all you can do. You're just a pebble in the stream of another person's life. Alone you aren't making much of a difference but your continued presence affects them. If a few others do the same as you, and a few more, and a few more... all those pebbles can change the course of a stream.
Unless you physically are not safe, you don't need to hide your power level.