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Turns out you can very easily fly under the radar and avoid detection as a communist (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* by to c/chat@hexbear.net
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All you have to do is avoid obvious symbols and never say certain trigger words

  • “proletariat”
  • “bourgeoisie”
  • “class”
  • “means of production”

And just try to get around the words to say the exact same thing

Funny thing is, once you strip those away, most people will nod and think you’re describing reality

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[–] 41 points 2 months ago (13 children)

don't use words people don't understand, use the words they do understand

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    not to be patronizing but if i think someone cant consistently understand words with more than 7 letters i totally shift my way of talking and even thinking when im around them.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    You're discounting like 40% of the population, and most of those are ignorant not stupid, blame public education and anti-intellectualism in imperialists nations

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Literally said not to be patronizing, you should always act as the romans when in rome, you gotta blend in. I'm also a total determinist, i dont really blame anyone for anything.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    There are lots of words with fewer than 7 letters that you don't know and ones with more than 7 that they do, there's no need to be such a snob about it. Also illiteracy isn't just something people choose for themselves in most cases.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    ok and?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    most marxist analysis uses pretty big words, somewhat unnecessarily. like working class or just workers when the academic term would be proletariat. dumbing down the language can make you fly under the radar very effectively

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I find that a lot of "Marxist analysis" is people using the big words as a smoke screen to mask a lack of deep understanding.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    sometimes people have big words and understanding. they just don't know another way to talk.

    there is 2 ways of education an individual:

    1. educated them to educate others

    2. educate them to exclude others

    because of careerism, the second is incentivized.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    ah we are agreeing?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    i believe so, like here im not afraid to use big complicated words, like i remember not knowing what a mountebank is in the communist manifesto, googling it and thinking, why the fuck would you translate that as a word?

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