@abolisyonista I think you just have to choose who you talk to.
For example, there is an advocacy group in Czechia https://nerust.cz/, who write this:
>Non-growth is a vision of a society in which the basic organizing principle will not be profit and growth, but the satisfaction of human needs within planetary limits, care and sufficiency.
I think this is quite uncontroversial and it makes sense. Yet, some people will (and have) attack it, because they claim it's "communism". You will never convince such people - probably because they themselves benefit from the current economy.
But there are people who you might convince. And imo it's not worth to change your message to try to appeal to people who are not on your side anyway.