One of the most common questions we get is whether or not we should “hide our power level” when it comes to our political positions. In this video, we look at the words and practice of Karl Marx, Fred Hampton, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Harvey Milk to tackle the question: should we hide our true positions as we build our movement?
What part of this means you have to say “communism”, your views and aims are probably not saying a word so if your politics have a chance to be popular but your political identity does not maybe focus on the former. Notice how anti-immigration fascists don’t say they’re fascists nor that they’re doing fascism when they’re doing stuff that’s popular like deporting migrants.
We’re not in 1848. “Never ever be subversive” has never been an objective principle of communist strategy, nor recognized as universally good political tactics, if it’s worth doing you do it.
In most people’s imagination “Communism” is a thing that already happened and mostly ended, whatever changes the world is going to be called something else even if it retains the same views and aims.
I think you just did the thing where one provides a quote and lazily confuses principles with strategy.