Man, communism really never meant anything other than “shit we don’t like” in America.
My favorite modern example is ‘Marxist corporations’
I regularly think about how many of our sweet old grandparents were among these crowds.
How many of our doting loving grandmother’s were hurling racial slurs at the top of their lungs?
How many grandfather’s strung up the rope for the lynch mob?
These things ended less than a full generation ago
If you look at the Ruby Bridges pictures you’ll see school aged kids who are still very much alive and vote like crazy. I pointed this out to my brother one day and he was totally caught off guard. And he’s a pretty smart dude, it’s just something that has been framed as “in the past” to us our whole lives by pretty much every institution. Propaganda works, very insidiously.
They couldn’t define “communism” then, they can’t define “socialism” now. No change.
Oh shit. I didn’t even realize. We implemented desegregation and we’ve been a communist state ever since! Holy fuck!
It just goes to show how empty and dishonest racist rhetoric really is.
And anti-communist rhetoric, for that matter.
Did they had a lot of blacks in communist USSR in the 60s?
I don’t know about blacks but they had a lot of reds. /s
