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brickfaced | 10 months ago

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tsimionescu|10 months ago

...with rights for all workers that today it would be unthinkable to even question? Or worse, women's suffrage? Or rights for people of color?

There's no such thing as a (successful) social movement that doesn't employ some amount of violence - the police and the state more generally simply won't allow it.

sriram_malhar|10 months ago

A the way we do that is to declare that someone is a communist (whether or not they are), then equate communism to terrorism, then treat it with McCarthyism or Napalm.

malcolmgreaves|10 months ago

I see you don’t understand what communism means. We’re talking about socialism here. Don’t let fear of what you haven’t bothered to learn rule your life.