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I, for one, wouldn't resist such an alliance. But I'm from a commonwealth. But I also didn't really ever understand the McCarthy thing. Fucking Ace Ventura couldn't make that shit interesting. I had to learn it like everyone else in my generation. Through alien analogies. Which are awesome. I'm totally willing to work with the aliens.
Of course not. Why would there be? This is not the 1940s. Today the CPUSA is too small and marginal for its "infiltration" of any other organization to matter.
For whatever reason, some Americans have been scared of communists since the late 19th Century. Thomas Nast drew cartoons about them.
http://sophia.smith.edu/~maldrich/xsource%20images/topics/Labor,strikes/1878HarpersMar16.jpg
http://www.printsoldandrare.com/thomasnast/007tnast.jpg
And it really het up after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia -- see the First Red Scare and the Second Red Scare, and the Smith Act trials.
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A bit more precisely: where and when?
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I'm sorry.
The article is a statement of the bleeding obvious. Of course the Communist Party would seek to work with the Democrats, as in the UK they would try to work with the Labour Party.
In both countries, the Communists would chose the most left-leaning party to try to influence.
In both countries the Communists have no practical impact on any mainstream party. They are a tiny group of nutcases.
But in some European countries, Communists do hold positions of power in some local politics, but they are not the old USSR Communists. They believe in democracy.
The article is a statement of the bleeding obvious. Of course the Communist Party would seek to work with the Democrats, as in the UK they would try to work with the Labour Party.
In both countries, the Communists would chose the most left-leaning party to try to influence.
In both countries the Communists have no practical impact on any mainstream party. They are a tiny group of nutcases.
But in some European countries, Communists do hold positions of power in some local politics, but they are not the old USSR Communists. They believe in democracy.
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Right, you didn't say it or necessarily agree with it, you just posted it.
Classic Vetteman move to maintain a semblance of plausible deniability when his article turns out to be a big steaming pile.
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Sayz Mr.I can shit talk manipulate and ascribe till my hearts content....
LMFAO you're so full of shit, it wasn't communism that does those things.....unless you're willing to admit that conservatism is the reason ISIS is doing what it's doing.
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Which actually makes it a bit weird, since that would make them, at least under the traditional definition of the term, Social Democrats.
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Would be right, if Social democrats wouldn't exist, too. Communists are more left of them.
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I only need to be informed about the 200 000 killed or wounded Americans, which now, a post later, are 340 000: where and when?
What, are you talking about Korea and Vietnam? Of course Communists are going to kill Americans who are in their country to fight them. That's neither murder nor war crime, it's perfectly legitimate under the laws and customs of war, and nothing to hold against Commies in either country nor in general.
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Maybe if we didn't stick our nose in their fucking bidnizz it we could have kept 340,000 americans.
The meanings of political labels do tend to change over time; the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both factions of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
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The American Communist Party
I have known members of the American Communist Party. I have always liked them. I would rather spend an evening with a card carrying member of the American Communist Party than with vetteman.
http://www.cpusa.org/
I have not liked members of the Progressive Labor Party, but I have found members of the American Communist Party to be intelligent, well informed, and civil.
http://www.plp.org/
I have known members of the American Communist Party. I have always liked them. I would rather spend an evening with a card carrying member of the American Communist Party than with vetteman.
http://www.cpusa.org/
I have not liked members of the Progressive Labor Party, but I have found members of the American Communist Party to be intelligent, well informed, and civil.
http://www.plp.org/
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Where do you get that 340,000 figure? We lost about 55,000 in Vietnam, and about 35,000 in Korea. The Korean War was worth it. South Korea is a much better country than North Korea. The War in Vietnam was not. President Eisenhower estimated in his memoirs that as many as 80% of the Vietnamese supported Ho Chi Minh. We should have stayed out of that conflict.
