Yes the Europeans have never trusted communists, to their own detriment. I wouldn’t extrapolate the same attitudes to Russia, where the local Party seems to still be the second largest in the country. The CPC has nearly a hundred million members. I wouldn’t call those “dead”.
Elaborate on this, please. Broad, sweeping statements such as mine can be extremely erroneous. I know that Finland’s welfare capitalism has been described and sold to its recepients as “socialism” when it was just imperial spoils extracted from the global south.
Italy had one of the largest Communist parties in Europe until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It’s not like people have some natural inborn aversion to communist parties. The whole imperial spoils just being extracted from the global south is partially why people lost faith in the original Communist parties in the 1960s.
Yes the Europeans have never trusted communists, to their own detriment. I wouldn’t extrapolate the same attitudes to Russia, where the local Party seems to still be the second largest in the country. The CPC has nearly a hundred million members. I wouldn’t call those “dead”.
Lol…Italy?
Elaborate on this, please. Broad, sweeping statements such as mine can be extremely erroneous. I know that Finland’s welfare capitalism has been described and sold to its recepients as “socialism” when it was just imperial spoils extracted from the global south.
Italy had one of the largest Communist parties in Europe until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It’s not like people have some natural inborn aversion to communist parties. The whole imperial spoils just being extracted from the global south is partially why people lost faith in the original Communist parties in the 1960s.
I’m not an expert on Italian history.