I don't think many even know what a communist is or what communism is about. it just makes them feel upset when they hear the word because of constant corporate mass media conditioning.
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US-americans: "Communism is when the government does things. The more things it does the communistier it gets."
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I think Americans are well past the point of blaming this on communism.
There's still a kinda fear of "socialism" and other stuff as specters, but it's internal. I don't think many here are looking at shit that's going down locally and saying "...Damn Russkies." I haven't seen that once IRL since like 2016. Even mega Trumpers I know are looking inward (at Democrats); that's kinda the point of the movement, and those I knew who were a little Cold War nostalgic have, sadly, passed away.
Nah.
Look at everyone attacking Mamdani, ethno fascists, techbros, liberals...
Its pretty much all 'he is a big bad scary communist.'
He is of course not actually a communist, but even an actual socdem is so far to the left of the American Overton Window, the only vocab words that exist are 'commie! socialist! which are the same thing, or something!'
Granted, the fact that Mamdani has significant public support means that there are more Americans who are more left-wing ... but the actual Dem leadership, as with Bernie, cannot countenance losing their corpo megadonors, so they pull out the stops for anything left of ... rainbow capitalism.
You have Trump doing Hitler 2.0 electric boogaloo and Bernie call it Stalinist cult come one
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Then what's all the China rhetoric about
Though to be fair I think it has died down a bit
It used to be the justification for tariffs, but yeah, it really feels like it died down. MAGA targets have shifted to Europe, and more recently, Brazil.
Venezuela is a big one, too. Oh my god, my family will not shut up about Venezuela. But that's less new.
My neighbor blames every current problem on democrats by saying "they are communist" as his main point.
I wish they were, they aren't cool enough.
I donβt think many here are looking at shit thatβs going down locally and saying ββ¦Damn Russkies.β
What? "Damn Russkies!" is like the number one thing hardcore Democrat supporters blame for the state of the US
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From which movie is this?
It looks like Battle Royale
American Logic:Nazis were communists, Chinese are communists, USSR was communists, we are good everyone else is bad.
PRC and USSR yes, Nazis no, the US is absolutely the worst Empire on Earth.
Come off it, capitalism is just USAian culture.
From which movie is this?
And what is capitalism, or communism, or socialism? I feel like there are different definitions of those things.
Capitalism is a mode of production largely defined as one where private ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and commodity production is the main form.
Socialism is a mode of production where public ownership is the principle aspect, and is more planned and controlled.
Communism is a post-socialist, global system that is fully collectivized and planned.
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