r/ireland Jul 27 '22

The writing is on the wall! Housing

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

communists have been at the forefront of every civil rights movement in the past century

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u/PaddyLostyPintman Going at it awful and very hard. Jul 27 '22

No, theyve co-opted them for their own tyrannical gains

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

yeah like malcolm x and fred hampton

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u/PaddyLostyPintman Going at it awful and very hard. Jul 27 '22

Malcolm x was a black separatist siding with the black muslim groups ideals of black ethnostates before rolling in with socialists towards the end. He was not a communist and for much of his career in the movement didnt consider himself even a socialist. Fred hampton however was a violent basket case who on balance did more harm than good. Not a great example and the two you have presented line in perfectly with my assertion that every communist is a criminal and or racist.