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The American Nightmare: 20th Century U.S. History, Red Scares, & Fred Hampton
Revolutionary Left Radio
The Rise and Fall of Anti-Communism
Even to this day, when you talk about universal healthcare or free education, the first thing that you're met with is socialism. Even trying to address the climate crisis is immediately called communism and socialism. When you don't have a critique of capital, all you're left with to explain reality is conspiracy thinking. The john birch society was a predecessor of QAnon, I would argue. And so we can see how this period of history that we look back on and think we're separated from this red scared to McCarthyism, gave rise to these movements that are still in action today.
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