>>2361670>To what degree is it ok to lie to fellow workers in order to make socialism more appealing to them?Lie to them about what? That socialist govs and figures make/made mistakes? Those are nothing compared to the damage caused by capitalism. The idea isn't to just present a reality- it's to sell them on an idea. If a worker starts saying uninformed stuff, come prepared to ask him questions via socratic reasoning- i.e question him and then follow through by backing your statement with facts.
>What are the benefits and risks of doing so?Depends on the workers and where they are. If you're talking to a bunch of MAGA-loving working class people, a good chunk of them have already been lost to the cult. The best you can do is just challenge them in front of their friends and co-workers and show them for the snake-oil purchasers/ salesmen they are.
>How much theoretical knowledge do you have?We can talk Marx, Lenin, Malatesta, Mao, Fanon, Kropotkin, Bookchin, Ocalan, Makhno or even fuckin' Stirner. Arguing academics with workers- particularly in america who on average have a 6th grade reading level- is often a folly. Probe them on how much they know or don't before discussing theory. Again, lead with the idea, and the analysis.
While theory is great, I often find that using data, actual facts, is what often emboldens folks to understand how fucked the situation is. Thing is, most workers know they're getting fucked over so you're preaching to the choir, the problem is they think that by vootin' in the right person will lessen their woes.
>Can you convey it without using wanky words like "class", "state", "proletariat" and "capital"?>ClassSure just use words like workers, bosses, ceos etc.
>StateState's fine, you could use government and add a prefix before it i.e to take a page out of friendly jordies book "the liberal government"
>ProleteriatWorkers
>Capital While we can't necessarily define this as money, you can still talk about how workers don't have a say in our jobs. If we put it together, You can often say "our bosses control our work lives and wages, they own the tools despite us using them and even though we do more work, we get sweet nothing of wages while he gets it all despite doing little of the work."
>The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.This was written before a time of massive COINTELPRO, cold war propaganda, nazism, McCarthyism and well before the creation of the Paris Commune. Sometimes, you have to be subtle with your aims lest you get into stamping and shouting slogans which no one understands. Even popular socialist parties have arguably been reduced to watering down their rhetoric and demands- prime example is the response of the violent riots and killing of Israeli ambassadors. I get they don't want to be cracked down and saying such stuff is dumb, but there is a time and place for this rhetoric, and it isn't 24/7.