How would you say you're a communist without saying you're a communist?

Examples that come to mind:

The two rules are that:

It has to be to do with a category that is socially acceptable to talk about with most people in a casual setting. So no politics or philosophy.
Nothing too on the nose, ex, no "I love the music of the Red Army Choir" or something.

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I normally just tell people. Disdaining to conceal our aims and so forth. For those times when outright saying I'm a socialist would derail things into an unproductive debate about how "communism has never worked" or whatever, I usually default to saying I'm an anti-capitalist or something like that. Even then, I try to sneak in surplus value and class conflict and similar language. If I'm fairly certain I'm talking to another leftist, I let it slip as quickly as possible so we don't spend however many minutes using coded language and sniffing each other out.

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