JWeinCom said:
sc94597 said:
It is pretty obvious that if they had anything remotely alluding to actual left-wing politics, they would release it. Trump has a hatred for the left (likely because of the 2020 protests) that he didn't really have as much in his first term. He also has a strong motivation to coin an enemy.
The difficult part is that it isn't believable at all amongst non-MAGA that there is a real communist threat. Communism has never been weaker as a movement. This is very unlike 1920's and 30's Germany (or even 1930's U.S) where communism was a real threat to the extant systems.
The right is trying to treat "woke" ideas as the new communism, but nobody really cares about woke that much. Radical cultural liberalism isn't a threat to capitalism. |
Socialism is very strong in the US. For example, Trump just ensured the us government has a 10% interest in Intel. That's pretty socialist. |
Even if we consider mixed-ownership (alone) to be socialism (which those of us who are socialists disagree is necessarily the case) it is still far from communism. It is mostly just mild democratic socialist polices, when partially implemented (like the TVA, and post-office, as prior examples.)
Communists and other radical socialist want to abolish (or outmode) the dominant relationship of production that defines capitalism -- wage labor. We are further away from that happening than we were in the 1930's -- when there was a real threat of mass expropriation of the means of production.
