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by emergie
1944 days ago
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> how communists act OP is more or less correct. As a person who lived behind the iron curtain I can recommend you "Captive mind". It is non-fiction set of observations of an intellectual living in a communist regime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind |
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It's not news to anyone that life "behind the iron curtain" had its share of horrors. We anarchists know that life under any giant "national" government is similar, even if particular governments can be better or worse than others. Perhaps my questionable recent reading is to blame, but the first people I thought of when reading about "radical communist conspiracy" were the million Indonesians slaughtered by nationalist military and vigilantes with the firm planning and support of capitalist CIA in 1965 and 1966. These communists had "conspired" to feed the poor and support the existing democratically-elected government. So, blanket statements about communists (or capitalists, or I guess even monarchists), even if motivated by putative life experiences, don't hold much water with me.