aleph@lemm.ee to The Right Can't Meme@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year agoThese people genuinely have no idea what communism islemm.eeimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
arrow-up111arrow-down1imageThese people genuinely have no idea what communism islemm.eealeph@lemm.ee to The Right Can't Meme@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squarepugsnroses77@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoi cannot believe how many decades a single word has had a chokehold on this country with zero sense of political nuance
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoYup. Decades of Cold War propaganda, an incompetent news media, and a binary, two-party duopoly that positions itself as “the right” versus “the left” have all worked together on this one.
minus-squareFenrirIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThe media aren’t incompetent, they’re complicit
minus-squarecmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThe Russian Revolution freaked the capitalists out and they’ve done everything they could for nearly a century to demonize the concept of solidarity
minus-squareF_State@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI mean, that fact that Bosheviks are the commies that won really didn’t help things
minus-squarecucumber_sandwich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe cold war has been over for almost as long as it went on…
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoAnd I still continually find people on the internet calling Russia communist. It’s enough to make a communist scream.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNah, it never ended. It just became multipolar and (usually) less obvious.
i cannot believe how many decades a single word has had a chokehold on this country with zero sense of political nuance
Yup. Decades of Cold War propaganda, an incompetent news media, and a binary, two-party duopoly that positions itself as “the right” versus “the left” have all worked together on this one.
The media aren’t incompetent, they’re complicit
The Russian Revolution freaked the capitalists out and they’ve done everything they could for nearly a century to demonize the concept of solidarity
I mean, that fact that Bosheviks are the commies that won really didn’t help things
The cold war has been over for almost as long as it went on…
And I still continually find people on the internet calling Russia communist. It’s enough to make a communist scream.
Nah, it never ended. It just became multipolar and (usually) less obvious.