These statistics quantitatively express a significant shift in political mood and perspective that has occurred over just the last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the US and the world.
You know which movements are an even bigger thread to communists? Open anti-communists like fascists.
Hitler did set back the communist movement in Germany quite a bit by literally killing them. Sure, soc-dems have broader appeal by being less radical, and most people being too afraid of true radical change. But I'll still have an easier time of pulling a soc-dem over, than I'll pull a fascist or neoliberal over.
Fuck, even Lenin did side with soc-dems, when it was to oppose more right movements...
You know which movements are an even bigger thread to communists? Open anti-communists like fascists.
Hitler did set back the communist movement in Germany quite a bit by literally killing them. Sure, soc-dems have broader appeal by being less radical, and most people being too afraid of true radical change. But I'll still have an easier time of pulling a soc-dem over, than I'll pull a fascist or neoliberal over.
Fuck, even Lenin did side with soc-dems, when it was to oppose more right movements...
Those movements are dead, were dealing with neoliberalism now, don't compare apples and oranges