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celebratedrecluse OP wrote

there is no gain to the marginal in recuperating communism, that is actually the opposite of the goal. however in appropriating communism, one could use it for more interesting ends than reassimilating it into respectability.

There is no point to defending Mao and Stalin-- playing that game of respectability politics is absurd in any country. Instead, it makes sense to use communism to describe things in the present day, in the immediate world, and directly apply it.

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