I wish communism was the Default Ideology in the West, not neoliberalism.

I say a lot that I miss the Cold War, or that I wish the Soviets had won for some cultural reason, but honestly, I just wish sometimes that the understandings of the world that feel like common sense to me, weren't something I have to explain over and over and over again to the older family members who are supposed to be teaching me this stuff. I wish I didn't have to tell people I'm a socialist, it was everyone who isn't a commie who has to state their position as an outlier and a bias and the default assumption was that everyone's a Marxist-Leninist.

I don't even necessarily wish the USSR had won the Cold War, though that'd be a neat way to achieve this goal, I just wish that the Second World still existed and the Anglosphere was part of it. Would mean we'd have our own piles of old commie propaganda and our own well known and respected historical list of socialist writers, at least.

(By the way, comrades, anyone got a favourite old Soviet movie at this time of year? Could use a recommendation. Just found out I'm not invited to my mom's for New Years' Eve like usual, she only wants me there Jan 1, and I've got the day to kill, festively. Don't know if that'll just make me miss the USSR more, but it might make me feel better instead, so.)