It's all part of the Gramscian Damage. The famous Unix guru Eric Raymond had a very illuminating post on this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260 http://esr.ibiblio

It's all part of the Gramscian Damage. The famous Unix guru Eric Raymond had a very illuminating post on this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260 If you ask most Americans who invaded Poland in 1939, most will simply say "Germany" or "the Nazis". Few will mention the "Soviet Union" or "the Communists". Even fewer will say "the National Socialist German Workers Party". That's part of the Gramscian Damage. University humanities and social science departments are relentlessly conformist, though they certainly don't see themselves that way. Since they largely control the inflow of ideas into the culture, they can choke off whatever they want. So, the CCP largely gets a pass.