dinah-fire

dinah-fire t1_iqrm0mr wrote

The word 'communism' has been so thoroughly demonized in the US at this point that it doesn't matter what it really stands for--you just can't use that word. It's like how the swastika had a thousand year history of being a religious symbol of piece before the Nazis ruined it. It doesn't matter.. people are still gonna look at it and say 'Nazi'. It doesn't matter that Marx would've been horrified by what the Soviet Union became, that's just what communism means now. Any modern political party with the word 'communist' in it is doomed to failure.

That being said, I've never heard of the Maine Communist Party.

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