You’re kidding yourself if you think it’s a negotiation tactic. When the revolution comes, such revisionism will get you executed by true believers.
But at least you’re useful to them for the time being. Someone needs to radicalise the people who will carry out the purges.
Let’s demonise a subset of the population and joke about murdering them just like my ideological comrades did in the 19th century! Look how provocative I’m being.
But that’s okay today? At least in my social circles it is. Just talk about it to whichever friend you have that demands you answer immediately. They are being unreasonable.
They’re authoritarian and they hate the west. Of course they’re appealing to communists.
Western commies idolising brutal authoritarian regimes is nothing new.