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by onecommentman 1987 days ago
Then just present the ideas as ideas about society, economics, and technology and forego the damaged title branding associated with the deaths of tens of millions and suffering of hundreds of millions more.

Why are you choosing to dilute your message by attaching it to (what a substantial chunk of the audience would see as) a repulsive logo? What would you have to gain by doing that? Puzzling...

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>Then just present the ideas as ideas about society, economics, and technology and forego the damaged title branding associated with the deaths of tens of millions and suffering of hundreds of millions more.

Other people consider capitalism, western powers, imperialism, islamism, christianism, and others to taste, associated with "the deaths of tens of millions and suffering of hundreds of millions more" and yet you probably have no problem with at least one of those, if not more...

As if Marx or Marxism implies some inevitable association with Stalinism (or e.g. Christianity = the crusades, the spanish inquisition, etc.).