So, there’s room for growing? Because, it’s a curious trend that can also be interpreted as “the more people ages, the more averted to communism”, which is something that rings a bell here.
No, the point is that as conditions worsen and we are further removed from the peak of the Red Scare, new generations are less exposed to that level of propagandizing and more sympathetic to communism.
I agree. Older generations were fooled by the propaganda because they had it “good” (in some ways, not all). When it comes to labor rights and wages, those benefits were handed down from communists and socialists who fought for them after the great depression.
After they benefited from the high quality of life these concessions gave, they received enough propaganda to pick away at the benefits they received, since they didn’t need them anymore!
And no, I’m not saying America was ever “good”, either. Settlers has a good example early on in the book about this. Early in US history, they massacred native populations and plundered their homes for animal furs. Colonizers don’t care about harming others as long as they feel they receive proper compensation from the exploitation at home or abroad. I believe these same colonialist views still have a chokehold around the US population, but the same criticisms also apply to most of Europe as well.
Half of gen z are still in highschool and probably have no direct experience of exploitation by landlords and employers.
So, there’s room for growing? Because, it’s a curious trend that can also be interpreted as “the more people ages, the more averted to communism”, which is something that rings a bell here.
No older people are more anti-communist because the quality of propaganda has been degrading not because they are older.
Are you saying that once the threat of communism increases, the propaganda will get better and better, and less people will like communism?
No, the point is that as conditions worsen and we are further removed from the peak of the Red Scare, new generations are less exposed to that level of propagandizing and more sympathetic to communism.
I agree. Older generations were fooled by the propaganda because they had it “good” (in some ways, not all). When it comes to labor rights and wages, those benefits were handed down from communists and socialists who fought for them after the great depression.
After they benefited from the high quality of life these concessions gave, they received enough propaganda to pick away at the benefits they received, since they didn’t need them anymore!
And no, I’m not saying America was ever “good”, either. Settlers has a good example early on in the book about this. Early in US history, they massacred native populations and plundered their homes for animal furs. Colonizers don’t care about harming others as long as they feel they receive proper compensation from the exploitation at home or abroad. I believe these same colonialist views still have a chokehold around the US population, but the same criticisms also apply to most of Europe as well.
Yep, organizers in the US Empire need to tackle settler-colonialism as its primary contradiction.