This association is due to not challenging cold war propaganda over the last century and look where its gotten the American left.
Rejecting the symbol of communism because a project that transformed 250 million illiterate, starving peasants into a space-faring superpower with a quality of life comparable the west used it is the equivalent of prefacing every discussion of Palestine with rejecting Hamas and acknowledging a settler colonial state’s right to exist, every discussion of Venezuela with calling Maduro a dictator who should be sanctioned, every discussion of China with “ccp evil”.
You’ve already lost if you’re gonna go along with whatever horseshit your opposition says about you.
This association is due to not challenging cold war propaganda over the last century and look where its gotten the American left.
Rejecting the symbol of communism because a project that transformed 250 million illiterate, starving peasants into a space-faring superpower with a quality of life comparable the west used it is the equivalent of prefacing every discussion of Palestine with rejecting Hamas and acknowledging a settler colonial state’s right to exist, every discussion of Venezuela with calling Maduro a dictator who should be sanctioned, every discussion of China with “ccp evil”.
You’ve already lost if you’re gonna go along with whatever horseshit your opposition says about you.