Title basically. He has multiple times sent me anti-communist propaganda, hes leftist but he doesnt know enough about capitalism to hate it, nor marxism to understand it. He just goes with the western mainstream left of hoping things will change by voting, even living in one of the most corrupt western governments. And just like that he hates communism with the typical 8 morbillion dead argument. I think sending him any response about this is gonna make him mad. How do I deal with this situation?
Is your friend fully aware that you are a communist? Does he do all that on purpose?
Also, if he doesn’t really do research, then I think your hope is to use agit&prop content.
If he uses tiktok a lot, for example, then you’ll need to find good content about communism there to send him, stuff like JamesRehwald. Maybe doesn’t even start with communist content yet, but ease his way into it by sending less radical stuff first. Also subversive content like Boy Boy on youtube is great.
You could also always just sit down with him, make clear you don’t like the stuff he says, and have a genuine conversation truly listening to the misunderstandings and issues he has with communism and trying to very patiently debunk it. You’ll need to do some research first and you’ll need to know examples of things he can relate to. It’s difficult, but it’s doable. Just don’t expect him to turn into a comrade because of this though, at best he will be more receptive of the ideas and will be less annoying. After that it’s slowly showing him the way.
He is not fully aware, mostly for not knowing anything about socialism, I sometimes speak with him about moderate leftist measures, he is fine with taxing the rich and such, but maybe I said something too radical for him, like maybe the USSR wasn’t a cartoonishly evil hell, but yeah he is doing it on purpose. Otherwise yeah I’m gonna speak to him about it or send some memes on Insta.
If he’s doing it out of worry for you because he truly believes that liberal nonsense then at least his heart is in the right place although he is misguided. Otherwise, if he’s doing it to be combative and to annoy you than that’s just fucked up the way I see it.
That being said, you seem to care about this person and your friendship, and I think it’s best to be able to talk to him, at least a little. Also, don’t try to walk on eggshells too much by avoiding to speak your mind out, that’s something that didn’t go well for me lol.
I guess he thinks I support dictatorships and he is against it, he is not a combative person, just lost in propaganda. Thanks for the advice I will try to speak with him honestly about this when I have the chance. I just wish he would do some research by himself, would be so much easier.