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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.

By that measure Luxembourg would be a communist country, considering that the state has a stake in every single major Luxembourgish company. And that's in general between 30% and 50% of the company, so more than a blocking minority (which is around 15%) and enough to have a say in operations of the company.

That said, they tend to be rather hands-off with those companies unless shit hits the fan. And in some of those cases, the state has actually helped create those companies in the first place, like SES for instance.

The best part: From the dividends the state is earning tens of millions each year from those companies additional to the taxes they pay. Which is one of the reasons why Luxembourg has lower taxes: the income from those companies dividends actually amount to a couple percent of the total income of the state, so the taxes can be lowered yet not lose out on income.