If you're right and you aren't willing to actually communicate why, or worse, if you're right and you don't even understand why, you might as well be wrong.
If you're going to argue with people on the internet, and I know you are, either go full irony or actually take time to work out an argument that you know is going to be persuasive, none of this halvsies shit.
I was on the edge of becoming a leftist for like six months. That's literally how long it took for me to even be exposed to the idea that capitalism is bad for inherent and structural reasons, and not because of all the really obvious shit that liberals also disagree with but think can be reformed away.
It's not always helpful, but it can be. We need at least tens of millions more people on our side to get anything big done, and even if the material conditions are right to push people towards our side, they still need someone to light the way.
What's helpful is:
What's not helpful is:
Propaganda works, folks, and we're either doing it or standing by while it's done to us.
Yeah but it's not so helpful that you should still do it if it has negative consequences in your life
Absolutely.