I tried to keep the communist language as low key as possible, but I was in a thread I made about what could convince a leftist to vote for Biden, because I'm hearing some reasonable arguments from people I trust and respect. A progressive friend of mine (who's more left than like say, a Hillary supporter, but not any type of leftist) made some valid arguments about centrism and having to "play it safe" that I won't get into.
I've been dealing with a relatively severe manic episode the past few days, and I just let out a multiparagraph tirade about, "I understand wanting to appear moderate, but I'm fed up with capitalism, liberalism, and people being reactionary fucks. I wish we were already at the point where we could see that the whole Liberal-Conservative sham is what's keeping us sick, poor, and two paychecks away from homelessness." I didn't say anything about the USSR or Castro, but I also implied class struggle and how that should be our goal.
Eh, a pretty active thread with like 10 commenters haven't interacted in like an hour and a half, I hope I didn't completely alienate the rest of the people in my life, lol.
There may be plenty of people lurking on Facebook who feel the same as you, but thought they were alone. We shouldn’t be afraid to come out of the closet with our friends and family (assuming you don’t depend on them for food and housing).
From the little bit you mentioned, it sounds like you were pretty tame. Let the seeds germinate and you might have a new crop of leftists in the spring.
I love to hear it.
The only political content I see posted is vague lib shit (blm/trump bad) or chud shit, but when I make posts that are kind of scraping the boundaries of actual praxis... I typically get at least some engagement/discussion. I feel if I went full mask off it would disuade any of the libs I am friends with and they wouldnt engage as much, but if anybody has had success w/ that here, lemmy know.