Every now and then someone will try to inject anti-communism into this anti-fascist subreddit. This comment and especially this comment are good places to start pushing back on that.

  • Classic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I don't think these are the types of people we should be focusing on. These people derive their anti-fascism through American patriotism (however delusional that is), not through communism or leftism. Good luck trying to convince these people of the need to end US imperialism or settler colonialism.

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      My point is, there are lots of countries where the stars and Stripes don’t represent liberty and democracy as much as they represent coked up death squads, napalming rice farmers, deposing democratically elected governments, propping up fascist dictatorships and, more recently, a fleet of mechanised Predator drones knocking off targets on the presidential kill-list. If you opposite the authoritarianism of the hammer and sickle, then surely you’d also oppose the imperialism and brutality of the stars and Stripes?

      This comment is at around +15. I think there are some reachable people there.