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I think there are many, MANY of them running the show today.
If those rules of Marxism apply, then there must be a lot of first world communist countries out there today, lol. I mean TAXES? Oh horrors. Maybe another poster will dissect that communist manifesto with its far fetched "explanations" but the explanations are so exaggerated and inflammatory and just plain wrong that it would take a lot of energy to explain why they are false.
However, I think most people who follow politics today would agree that there are a lot of "somebodies" running the show today. Probably not communists but as to who is running the show, that's for another thread, a different topic.
Actually, he was running a distraction to hide the fact that the USA became a communist nation in 1933. Attacking Hollywood, hid the fact that the most pro-communist group was Congress, itself, a propaganda tactic used by NAZIs.
America's version didn't rely on overt nationalization, but covert control via taxes, licenses, rules and regulations that effectively made all labor and industry subservient to the Federal government and its alphabet agencies.
(Aggregate taxes, state, local and federal, amount to 39% to 46% of the GDP, which is a staggering amount when you think about it. Pharaoh's serfs only paid one part in five (20%) in taxes.)
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I don't think there are very many communists in America. There weren't many back then either but he loved to get people in trouble--fired from their jobs, blacklisted, lives ruined--and that's how he did it, start accusing people of being communists.
Not that I remember much about that era but it finally calmed down and got back to so-called "normal." Whatever his motivation was for wanting to harm people, I don't know. Sadism? Crazy person?
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Yes he was.
He was so far right he was just as bad if not worse than the far leftists he was allegedly identifying while blindly and carelessly destroying the lives of everyday people.
When I think of those times I remember some of the things Kruschev predicted.
"The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until they have lost faith in their Government, their nation has ceased to be a major world power, and their country is ripe for revolution."
Nikita Khrushchev
.. Maybe another poster will dissect that communist manifesto with its far fetched "explanations" but the explanations are so exaggerated and inflammatory and just plain wrong that it would take a lot of energy to explain why they are false...
Indeed. One could make a similar case that the US is currently a fascist nation.
It would also be wrong, but closer to reality IMO than being Communist.
No, McCarthy wasn't "right". His group started investigating my father because he was in the military but refused to attend church services. When investigators learned his mother's maiden name was McCarthy and actually distantly related, they stopped.
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Oh horrors. Maybe another poster will dissect that communist manifesto with its far fetched "explanations" but the explanations are so exaggerated and inflammatory and just plain wrong that it would take a lot of energy to explain why they are false. 
