• TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      No joke, Hoover was actually seriously concerned about that. He was constantly searching for connections between black radicals and foreign communist adversaries. Right-wingers have never believed that we have the conditions to make our own radicals right here at home.

      • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        No doubt! The Red Scare was all about delegitimizing domestic socialists as merely "agents of the Kremlin", conflating concern for your neighbors with anti-communist jingoism.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The black Panthers were very open about their connections to Algeria and the DPRK, he wouldn't have to look very hard