No, I was told it was bad by the numerous historical accounts of mass murder and totalitarian autocracy. It failed, it lost the Cold War, and now Europe is free. Democracy and the will of the people triumphed over one-party dictatorships from Prague to Warsaw. Get over it.
#democratic socialism is more what we should adopt
There's no such thing. Socialism by its nature is autocratic, either you do what you're told or you're brutally reminded why you should've complied. "Democratic socialism" only ever refers to the impossibility of squaring the circle of what socialism says it wants vs what always happens, political movements that are genuinely socialistic but lie about what they want and claim to support democracy, or political movements that are genuinely democratic but are confused as to what words mean and claim to support socialism. The latter are social democrats who're just further to the left than normal 99% of the time, Bernie Sanders is a pretty good example.
I wonder how many anti-communist people were also anti-slavery or even pro-black civil rights activists?
Google says Fredrick Douglass was strongly opposed to early socialism. And "(pro-civil rights) Politicians like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, were free-market capitalists".
Also, the early NAACP rejected communists (PDF).
By the time SNCC came into existence, “Red-baiting," shorthand for this extremely vicious form of anti-Communism, had devastated many Black
And MLK Jr. himself opposed it.
Historic fact: The politicians who were allowing segregation were the ones saying that the Soviet Union has been our allies, and we must silence those that speak I'll of Joseph Stalin. Meanwhile, senators in the 50s who worked hard to desegregate Washington DC like Hubert Humphrey and Barry Goldwater were heavily against communist. Or do you want me to start with the fact that Harry Truman pissed off his own party by saying we need to end segregation and cut ties with The Soviet Union.




















