>you'll see anti-war/racism/capitalism posters, PSAs, etc.
Just because you like the misleading message, does not make it less misleading.
Just because you are anti something that you consider bad, does not make you good, and more important than that, does not make you better than what you denounce.
Hitler was anti-comunist and Stalin anti-fascism. They used the anti "something horrible" as an excuse to grab all power without supervision.
I collect propaganda posters, and have lots of Russian communist ones. I study those. Communist has always been experts on propaganda and giving misleading messages.
>The idea that the only reason why they would oppose such examples of communism is out of embarrassment
I was thinking it was more that the X I believe in is good, Y is bad but says they are X I better devote some resources to explaining why Y is not X lest people get the wrong idea.
>Soviet posters have always kept pace with the times. They created images of role models for generations of Soviet workers and soldiers, exposed international warmongers and fought for world peace.
Ah yes, the peaceful non-imperial USSR, fighting against those international warmongers. That's the Soviet Union I know and love
> Why would Marxism be a signal for avoiding the movement?
Because lots of people have been affected by propaganda (both Leninist and capitalist) equating Marxism with Leninism (and it's descendants), and Leninism has a legitimately horrifying track record.
> This was actually a good thing. Che Guevara was a psychopathic murderer and war criminal.
No, he wasn't.
>The truth is that Communists have killed more people and been responsible for more human misery than any corresponding movement or ideology in the 20th century.
No, it hasn't. Stop spreading worthless VoC propaganda.
> Propaganda tends to be the tool of Stalin-esque dictators.
Not even close to true. Anti-authoritarian revolutionaries utilize propaganda to further their causes just as much as authoritarians do to solidify their positions. For example, Thomas Paine wrote propaganda for liberalism against British colonialism.
There's nothing remotely ironic about the CIA sponsoring an anti-Stalinist work.
> Being a communist absolutely makes you an evil person.
Tell me you don't know what communism is without telling me you don't know what communism is.
Yes, every known communist country has been rife with fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption. But those are orthogonal with communism as an economic model. It's like saying socialism is evil because the Nazis were socialist (they really weren't) just because "Socialist" is part of "Nationalist Socialist Party" .
> In the UK last week (or the week before) one arm of the government ordered another arm of the government to kill a 9 year old.
[citation needed], because this sounds like an extremely gross misinterpretation of a situation, likely done deliberately in bad faith.
>And I will argue that communism is fundamentally a good ideology.
This is a dangerous thing to say publicly! As you mention yourself, the United States has had red scares just a generation ago. Who is to say it won't happen again? And that is exactly why you should support freedom of speech and tolerance of differing ideologies. Or the next red scare will be even worse.
>statues of Lenin and Stalin were removed without much second thought, only USians would keep statues of their (war criminals)|(rebels) for 150 years.
As far as I know most of the USSR world war 2 monuments are still standinding. The US is removing even monuments to soldiers that don't feature any specific general or leader. By your logic we should tear down the famous Vietnam war memorial because the US lost the war.
> You have been well formatted by propaganda, they can be proud of them indeed.
I don't think you are here for a productive discourse. It is more likely you are waging a class war here. Please, find another person to preach Marxism to, I come from a country that has suffered greatly from Marxist ideology and the damage was so severe that recovery is still not in sight.
Black and white much? This idea that everything that's anti-capitalist or anti-stupid-ways-we-spend-money is communist is absurd.
The anti-capitalism rhetoric of the "mid-1900's" was a full-on propaganda campaign put out by government agencies and supported by the very real threat of nuclear total annihilation. Comparing a complaint about the stupid ways we spend money and organize our priorities to the Cold War is a bit of a stretch. I fear communist comparisons are becoming the new Godwin's law.
In reality, the guilt mentality discussed above is much more similar to the ultra-realist perspective of the comedy of Louis CK— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk —in that it is ridiculous that we have the immediate concerns that we do, but is, in fact, entirely true, and it's observant and useful to point that out.
Just because you like the misleading message, does not make it less misleading.
Just because you are anti something that you consider bad, does not make you good, and more important than that, does not make you better than what you denounce.
Hitler was anti-comunist and Stalin anti-fascism. They used the anti "something horrible" as an excuse to grab all power without supervision.
I collect propaganda posters, and have lots of Russian communist ones. I study those. Communist has always been experts on propaganda and giving misleading messages.
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