I think I do pretty much the same routine every time. I typically start with teaching people that all socialists want communism. This blows their brains because they can’t believe it, then they learn more and realise it’s true. Every segment of socialism whether it’s communists, demsocs, syndacalists or anarchists wants to achieve a communist society, it’s just a matter of disagreement over how to get there.

From that point onwards I teach them what capitalism actually is. I teach them the marxist definitions of classes within capitalism. I teach them the basic function of exploitation under capitalism using landlording as a simple example of a capitalist exploiting a worker with property ownership then extrapolate that out into business owners too.

I send them on their way with the recommendation they get into several communities, they then learn more about it in their own time.

Repeated interactions and touching on international issues as often as possible lead them towards internationalist attitudes. They become proper comrades.

My experience has been that it’s easier to convert young people from conservative american families than young people from liberal families. Possibly because the conservative young people have had their parents calling the democrats bad the whole time so you don’t have to break that down at all. Their families also intuitively understand that something is fucky with the system but don’t understand what it is.