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Capitalism by default is corrupt. The ruling class taking surplus value from the worker is the corruption.
I feel like we could better spread this idea if we removed the verbiage of communism from it. I think you would convince more people this is the truth if you worded it more like:
Allowing a few individuals to consolidate wealth gives them a sort of power they can use to bend the rules to their favor which furthers their ability to consolidate wealth which gives them more power, so on and so forth until we are where we are now
I feel like more people would agree with this, whereas talking about taking "surplus value from the worker" will automatically turn off peoples interest in hearing anything from you as they've been trained against this kind of phrasing.
I agree. You could spread ideas without using complicated lingo or ideology specific lingo. Convey ideas so that it is reasonably understandable to the common person.