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In living memory, through McCarthyism.

• zionic 5y ago
  >McCarthyism Isn’t that “ism” largely discredited? He was right, the government/institutions were full of communists. Today they’ve rebranded as socialists, but to my knowledge everything he fought against came to pass. Attaching the -ism label is just a thought-terminating cliche.
  • mardifoufs 5y ago
    It maybe wasn't "full of communists" but you are right that project VENONA has shown that McCarthy wasn't totally wrong either. Institutions were deeply inflitrated at all levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
    • the_only_law 5y ago
      I wonder what the overlap between those accused by McCarthy and those who were actually spies.
  • Miner49er 5y ago
    Communists should have freedom of speech too?