Personally I’m not that good at countering liberal comments on our posts, which seems to be happening more and more frequently with any posts relating to China. It’d be a lot easier if we could have a big pinned post with all the materials we need so we can just link to it whenever we need to.
A fellow comrade once told me that you don’t engage the liberals to win the argument against that particular person, you do it to convince the fencesitters lurking the comments. Ultimately, the more you make the Marxist viewpoint part of people’s discourse, the more they’ll question. Its how I became a Marxist, I’m sure there are others out there with a similar experience.
This has always been my position. There is a close to 0% chance you are going to change the mind of the person you are arguing with, with the rare exception of people who have only a surface-level understanding of the issues and are not yet emotinally or intellectually invested.
There are always bystanders though who will see what people are posting. The Marxist providing rational and well reasoned arguments is going to seem a lot more compelling to people who themselves aren’t invested, especially compared to somebody verbally running around in circles making unfounded claims.