Like let's give them an opportunity to study theory and apply doctrine in reeducation camps before committing them to a life of exile or death. Everyone will either come around, or they won't. Simple as that.
I say rip it off like a band-aid. Explain why it's for the greater good. I think there's clearly a problem with messaging in just criticizing capitalism without advocating for the alternative.
It's really easy to kick over sandcastles, but it's hard to build one with such limited tools. So let's unveil the castle in its full glory. Let's go mask off and make this a reality.
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I like this question, a lot- and thinking about it helped me understand why I enjoy reading others' stories of radicalization. It certainly feels at times that in a society so inundated with right-wing propaganda, so fundamentally anti-left, that finding ourselves here makes us special.
I think, at the end of the day, we were lucky in a sense- some of us came to this space through genuine ideological self-critique spurred on by nothing more than interest in politics, but I find that many of us just happened to stumble upon the right take at the right time in our lives (when our material conditions had degraded against our own internal ideas of meritocracy and work ethic, or dissonance between what we saw and felt versus what we believed to be true became too much).
Who's to say that all that it takes to bring most people around to support us wouldn't be simply solidarity and education combined with the absence of capitalist propaganda efforts, which some people are deeply vulnerable to?