▲ 55 ▼ Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy? (feddit.uk) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Vitaly@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 342 comments fedilink hide all child comments Even from people that never lived in a communist state edit: im 17 and i hate communism
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 child) It's probably the idea that Communists take offense to being called Socialist. The opposite is true, as Communism is a maximally Socialist position. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] HobbitFoot -2 points 2 years ago (1 child) If you are going by theory, sure. But if the word socialism gets used in conversation today, it will probably get interpreted as something like the Nordic model. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) That's what happens when the communists are purged and billions of propaganda dollars are spent over generations to erase their memory: you end up with Newspeak, where people don’t know their asses from their elbows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HobbitFoot -2 points 2 years ago (1 child) If you are going by theory, sure. But if the word socialism gets used in conversation today, it will probably get interpreted as something like the Nordic model. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) That's what happens when the communists are purged and billions of propaganda dollars are spent over generations to erase their memory: you end up with Newspeak, where people don’t know their asses from their elbows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare permalink fedilink source parent
[–] diplodocus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) That's what happens when the communists are purged and billions of propaganda dollars are spent over generations to erase their memory: you end up with Newspeak, where people don’t know their asses from their elbows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare permalink fedilink source parent