I’ve only met one person (IRL) that admitted they were a capital-C Communist.
I’ve met a few. Most were old and narrowminded Stalinists and Trots, except for some elderly Wobblies I knew. They weren’t just rehashing the Russian revolution, they were engaged in modern politics. Clever old bastards, and hard as nails. But that’s a different kind of commie. Rare birds, those.
Well, there were a couple youngish self-identified Maoists I knew too, back in the early 70s, but they were poseurs. One was even a trust-fund brat. I remember teasing him about his soft hands and how badly he’d fare in a reeducation camp.
What McCarthy really hated was the New Deal. And he really wanted some totalitarian repression in the US. And let’s not forget the lineage: McCarthy to Roy Cohn to Donald Rottenbrain Trumplgrueber.
I’ve met a few. Most were old and narrowminded Stalinists and Trots, except for some elderly Wobblies I knew. They weren’t just rehashing the Russian revolution, they were engaged in modern politics. Clever old bastards, and hard as nails. But that’s a different kind of commie. Rare birds, those.
Well, there were a couple youngish self-identified Maoists I knew too, back in the early 70s, but they were poseurs. One was even a trust-fund brat. I remember teasing him about his soft hands and how badly he’d fare in a reeducation camp.
What McCarthy really hated was the New Deal. And he really wanted some totalitarian repression in the US. And let’s not forget the lineage: McCarthy to Roy Cohn to Donald Rottenbrain Trumplgrueber.