This is something I’ve spoken about before, but this is how people in the west, the US especially, are trained to view communism/communists. Not as political theory, not as ideas, not as people following those ideas, but as some kind of outside force, some sort of satanic temptation that can only corrupt and destroy, that will emerge from outside and consume all until nothing is left.
In school I remember being very confused by the idea of “domino theory” that as one nation after another “falls” to communism it will spread one by one to the next nation, like dominoes knocking each other over, and yet, there was no mechanism for why this happens, it just happens despite communism being obviously bad and obviously horrible and no one ever wanting it or wanting communists to show up, they just kind of appear like an alien invasion out of nowhere and force communism upon everyone.
This is something I’ve spoken about before, but this is how people in the west, the US especially, are trained to view communism/communists. Not as political theory, not as ideas, not as people following those ideas, but as some kind of outside force, some sort of satanic temptation that can only corrupt and destroy, that will emerge from outside and consume all until nothing is left.
In school I remember being very confused by the idea of “domino theory” that as one nation after another “falls” to communism it will spread one by one to the next nation, like dominoes knocking each other over, and yet, there was no mechanism for why this happens, it just happens despite communism being obviously bad and obviously horrible and no one ever wanting it or wanting communists to show up, they just kind of appear like an alien invasion out of nowhere and force communism upon everyone.