They're too fuckin dumb to understand nuanced material critique, so all you're doing is giving them ammo to justify their own anticommunist biases from a left lens. There is no nuance in mainstream politics and the discussions therein, only extremes of black and white, with freedom countries on one and evil dictatorships on the other. Stop it.

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    If our main objective is class war, then we know how to identify our enemies. We should be absolutely unrelenting in attacking our enemies. The thing is though, Neoliberalism has absolutely fucked the class alignment of our political system, so to make progress we are going to be pissing of a lot of liberals as well as a lot of chuds. There is no way around this. It is a prerequisite of returning to class-aligned politics.

    To fart huffing liberals, they best way to attack our enemies is to indict them. Prove that they have committed a crime, and pin them on their tendencies towards institutional fetishism (rule of law, science). You cannot reconcile the idealistic liberal framework with the way capitalism materially functions. The entire state is an irreconcilable conflict of interest. A rat's nest of administrators plagued by their own personal conflicts of interest. They're all criminals. Chase those receipts and spread them as far as you can. Do some shoe-leather journalism if you must. Get them invested in seeing justice, and let the institutions radicalize them by failing completely. (Ironically, the Russiagate shit turned me from a turbo-lib to a constitutional abolitionist within two years. You mean to tell me this guy is an unprecedented threat to the republic, hype up this special prosecutor, then throw the report in the trash the minute you got it? The whole system is a fucking joke.)

    The reactionaries are another story. They don't give a shit about justice. You will never convince them to accept anything positive on the basis of a moral argument. We generally should assume their brains are melted, but their brains are melted in a few particular ways. The reactionary media inculcates them with intense hatred for many figures of the elite. Many of these figures are also our enemies. Especially now, since the Trump phenomenon has introduced new fissures into the right and the base is discarding figures like Rumsfeld like trash.

    The way to reach reactionaries is to eviscerate these lightning rod figures better than they could ever dream of, but to do it in such a way that the criticism cannot be co-opted. These people are crybabies who are convinced that the system is rigged against them in particular. In this way, they are the opposite of Liberals, who have such strong faith in the institutions that they would die on the cross for them.

    When the chuds not busy teeing off on homeless people or revolutionaries, we can push the narrative that yes, the system is rigged against you but point to the actual material ways this happens, doing our best to shut down the braindead structurally antisemetic and racist nonsense. These people are selfish bastards who only care about themselves, but if they are selfish proletarian bastards, we can show them how they in particular are being screwed over, and how the class struggle is the least of their worries.