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So why would we be threatened by Kibbutz in Israel? That was about as communist as you can get!
People are free to interact economically anyway they want. When I started framing houses and we all split the money evenly, I suppose that was communism.
I think some of you are confusing personal and community behavior (many churches are communist) with an actual system of government. If we had gotten to the point of having a Communist Political Party (major) with over 30% of the population supporting it - then I can somewhat understand the big corporations and the existing two party system being against it. But nothing of the sort ever happened....so it was all made-up fear.
Just like today. We Americans are no longer the home of the brave but more the hiding place of those scared of just about anything and everything.
To bad you're among the minority who can see this for what it is. Stimulating fear and the manipulation of it has been a very useful tool for those with power cravings. It has never been more graphically illustrated than today's political scene.
McCarthy completely fabricated his "evidence" of communist subversion in the federal government for political gain. He was a first rate liar on the order of Donald Trump. Not a hero - not even close.
it's no surprise that Trump lemmings are pro-McCarthy...
It doesn't matter whether he was right or wrong. As Americans we have the right to be idiot communists if we want and not have to worry about being harassed by the gov't.
Kind of both. He was right about a lot of things, but he took the communist witch hunt pretty far.
I think he deserves at least some credit. There definitely was an effort (pretty successful one) by the communists to infiltrate positions of influence in the US, but people try to completely dismiss that.
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