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Here’s the other thing.
The folks who sling about charges of “commie” have no idea what Communism is or what it means.
For them, it’s just a convenient slur, a bogeyman with which to frighten the polity.
Communism is several things. One thing is an economic theory about concentration of wealth in few hands leading to a revolt by the poor–that part seems chillingly prescient.
Another thing is a mystical belief that, when the revolt is over, people will get governance right (they didn’t).
The third thing is that it is dead, dead, dead.
