No, I'm doing it to protect my place in that community. I'm already an outsider, and saying "I'm a Marxist Leninist" would get me kicked. I'm pretending to be an orthodox Marxist just to challenge some views which don't make sense to me. That also means they have full ability to explain their positions.

I understand that it reeks of arrogance, but without me pretending to be an orthodox Marxist there wouldn't be any discussion anyway. This way we can at least try to find a middle ground.