Social media is flooded with people celebrating the events in Venezuela and it is not abnormal to feel frustrated or even confused by this. This is part of the plan to legitimize these events. This is how consent is manufactured.
You are fighting the CIA and multibillion dollar tech companies shaping these narratives. We as communists are simply outnumbered in this, so it is normal to not reach the crowds they do.
Practice marxist discipline, read theory regarding these subjects. Books like the Jakarta Method or Manufacturing Consent are good starts. Read in on Venezuela. Head over to prolewiki to see what’s available, and don’t lose hope.
Edit: or, as comrades here said, read Inventing Reality instead of MC
The American suburbs are the most damaging part to any Marxist-Leninist movement. A suburban house is essentially a little isolation box where class struggle is far away and U.S. propaganda is up close working its magic. Usually the life in the 'burbs would be:
Anything connecting people to real, material struggle comes like an unwelcome guest. This is the America so many people want to preserve against all odds.
There’s a somewhat explicit connection between the creation of suburbia in the US and anti-communism too.
(This is attributed to William Levitt, who is credited as the father of USian suburbia.
https://time.com/archive/6598189/suburban-legend-william-levitt/
In this case, replace the 2 & 4 with TikTok and instagram. At some point 3 transitions into selling your labour to someone who constantly threatens you with unemployment and homelessness. I get it.
They’re definitely not happy or functional people in my experience. The impression (maybe even analysis) I keep returning to is the Infinite Slop Machine they’re chained to has left them so intellectually and socially underdeveloped – coupled with no desire to address those deficiencies, gives me no hope at all. If anything, they’re closer to become better slaves than revolutionaries. Not even a western thing, It’s becoming like that here too.