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Even successful movements are open to criticism, and the 2020-era movement was a lot less successful than anyone here would have liked.
You don't want to just do tailism, but you also don't want to be so far from the masses that you remain too small and unpopular to accomplish anything. There has to be a way to talk about striking this balance.
The problem was never that they were too progressive. Communists should say what they mean and not shift their platform to the right -- concede in advance -- in the name of liberal electability. Having a radical platform that you have been honest and consistent about that can actually address people's needs is valuable, and the problems laid in other cases where people did a catastrophically obtuse job of articulating their positions.