the western progressive’s desire to have good beliefs in the face of obvious capitalist evil colliding with a lifetime of anticommunist propaganda that makes them shirk the label unless it has a million little qualifiers tacked on

this was so well put and extremely accurate. it wasn't that long ago that I was reading marx and absorbing myself in history but still battling with this removedling little propaganda bug in my brain telling me that it's somehow inherently wrong. i wanted to talk about it with people without having to be on the backfoot defending legitimate tragedies as well as propaganda. it took me awhile to realize that's the exact position capital wants to keep communism in.

They want diet, zero sugar communism.

should be writing opinion pieces or articles or something, you have a good way with words