>>18544879
Coercion can be effective but you have to actually win. Maoist guerrilla warfare was also about leveling up so you'd get your teenage peasant cadres to overrun and wipe out an isolated enemy outpost that had been deliberately not attacked, the soldiers there get bored and complacent after weeks/months and then they get nade spammed in the middle of the night by 15-year-olds who just experienced their first battle.

>>18544879
>Is persuasion or coercion a more effective way of communicating ideas?

Gaslighting, but actually and earnestly unironically.
Persuasion and coercion both have to overcome forms of resistance whether that's already inherent/latent ideas, arguments, beliefs, or just a persons individual will and determination. They also both require a lot of maintenance: it's often extremely difficult to 'permanently' coherce or persuade someone unless you've already established a certain level of control over them.

Ideally, don't bother with any of these things. Simply gaslight people.
"What do (you) mean by that?" Persistently assert whatever idea or belief you have on a person through prolonged, consistent, conditioning. You present your idea, beliefs, etc.. As normal, factual, for a long enough time, with no alternatives or dialogue, and people will habitually adapt to these new conditions no matter how bizarre. I suppose in a way this is just "non-violent coercion", but the general idea is to replicate the same conditions society enforces/creates that dictate normalcy to children.