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I think your point is, why don't they just admit we need communism? That's the thing they are defining when they describe what we need.
Your post put the idea into my head that, maybe they are. Maybe they know we need communism but they're using such obscure language so the libs will be agreeing with them and start looking for communism without knowing that's what they're looking for.
I don't know, that's pretty wishful thinking on my part.
The word "communism" itself has been so smeared with propaganda that the average person might agree 100% with communist principles, but as soon as you say the word they get the ick.
Introducing: Communism 2
This is very optimistic. Much more likely, these people came up in lib education/propaganda, believe communism can't exist/doesnt work/has killed trillions, and so what we need is a new thing that has all/many hallmarks of communism except it was invented by The Innovative, Tolerant, Progressive West. And of course, the more that someone understands the nature of the problem and the type of solutions that will be required, the more any new climate sensitive political paradigm will actually come to rely on and resemble marxist/communist analysis. But no matter how much that yet to be rigorously defined third system has in common with communism, it will always be known as some Other Thing because western liberalism is incapable of learning from anywhere in the global south, let alone the parts of the global south run by communist parties.