They still talk about the Hong Kong protests which dried up as soon as the money did /shrug

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I still have Libs telling me the evil Communist Chinese are trying to invade and conquer Hong Kong.

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Saturated by anticommunist orthodoxy, most U.S. leftists have practiced a left McCarthyism against people who did have something positive to say about existing communism, excluding them from participation in conferences, advisory boards, political endorsements, and left publications. Like conservatives, left anticommunists tolerated nothing less than a blanket condemnation of the Soviet Union as a Stalinist monstrosity and a Leninist moral aberration.27

That many U.S. leftists have scant familiarity with Lenin’s writings and political work does not prevent them from slinging the “Leninist” label. Noam Chomsky, who is an inexhaustible fount of anticommunist caricatures, offers this comment about Leninism: “Western and also Third World intellectuals were attracted to the Bolshevik counterrevolution [sic] because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine that says that the radical intelligentsia have a right to take state power and to run their countries by force, and that is an idea which is rather appealing to intellectuals.”28 Here Chomsky fashions an image of power-hungry intellectuals to go along with his cartoon image of power-hungry Leninists, villains seeking not the revolutionary means to fight injustice but power for power’s sake. When it comes to Red-bashing, some of the best and brightest on the Left sound not much better than the worst on the Right.

-- Blackshirts and Reds, Ch. 3, "Left Anticommunism - Slinging Labels"

The idea of communism is good, but it can never work until people admit that we need to bomb Iran.

I was stuck in that quagmire for like half a year. I remember one time I shared it with my super conservative boomer boss to see where he fell, because him and I would constantly banter about politics. He got like ten questions in and was like, "This quiz is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. All these questions are loaded, there's no way this was made objectively."

it broke the kids’ brains

It isn't even just that one thing. People will post here or on reddit about how their teacher had them do this kind of thing in high school. Personality tests and that sort of thing. And all that stuff is so meaningless and not at all a substitute for actual teaching about history or psychology or whatever. People get really warped understandings of the world from many different extremely oversimplified and maliciously biased questionnaire type things and models for thinking. I doubt any school in the US actually teaches about actual historical political movements with any clarity.

It’s probably a fucking op honestly.

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American politics was actually really good until Reddit came along and ruined it.

"lost to the Socialist-Revolutionaries"

No, the right SRs. Not the SRs as a whole. The left SRs backed the damn revolution, at least until they decided that surrendering all of their power and credibility to try and restart the war was a good idea.

That said, imagine thinking that the Constituent Assembly wouldn't have invited the White Army in with open arms the moment they emerged.

This industrialization and resultant death happened in the west but over a much longer timespan.

Then why doesn't the same condemnation go out to the capitalists? :parenti:

This, but unironically.