First, I enjoyed this post and I mostly agree. I will reread it and try to post a comment describing my perspective as someone that grew up in E. Europe in a completely different culture.
Before that though, I want to tackle this: "Communists believe that turning all sex into a robotic, debased free for all"
This is just using the word communists as a swear word. The acutal real-life communists were bad but they were bad in a completely different way than the current woke culture. Also, at the risk of triggering people brainwashed by US media, the communists were very different from country to country. Some countries in E. Europe were not bad and all of them were way better than N. Korea or China.
Remember that communists had free (not bad) healthcare, free (great!) education at all levels, child support, guaranteed jobs and guaranteed places to live. In terms of cultural mores, they were very conservative - supporting large families, censoring all sexual speech and ignoring all minorities (no preferred language or schools).
Compare that to today's "democrats" which are basically a combination of fascists and 3rd world dictatorships, wrapped in a lot of nazi-style propaganda. How are they communistic? They don't support working classes, they hate children and they are obsessed with sex.
So I hope someone can come up with a better term that we can use consistently. To my mind the closest historical events are the reign of terror in post-revolutionary France and the Inquisition. So "jacobin" is good or maybe fundamentalist progressopaths.
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Date: 2022-07-27 06:33 pm (UTC)Before that though, I want to tackle this:
"Communists believe that turning all sex into a robotic, debased free for all"
This is just using the word communists as a swear word. The acutal real-life communists were bad but they were bad in a completely different way than the current woke culture. Also, at the risk of triggering people brainwashed by US media, the communists were very different from country to country. Some countries in E. Europe were not bad and all of them were way better than N. Korea or China.
Remember that communists had free (not bad) healthcare, free (great!) education at all levels, child support, guaranteed jobs and guaranteed places to live. In terms of cultural mores, they were very conservative - supporting large families, censoring all sexual speech and ignoring all minorities (no preferred language or schools).
Compare that to today's "democrats" which are basically a combination of fascists and 3rd world dictatorships, wrapped in a lot of nazi-style propaganda. How are they communistic? They don't support working classes, they hate children and they are obsessed with sex.
So I hope someone can come up with a better term that we can use consistently. To my mind the closest historical events are the reign of terror in post-revolutionary France and the Inquisition. So "jacobin" is good or maybe fundamentalist progressopaths.