[lbo-talk] Anti-C v. anti-c

[Tom Walker]

Of course, the obvious defence against charges of anti-communism is to 
claim that one is simply anti-Communist. However, to be anti-Communist 
without being anti-communist requires a highly developed sensitivity to 
nuance and innuendo and a scrupulous avoidance of them. That is, if one 
is clumsily anti-Communist, one becomes objectively anti-communist and 
often objectively anti-left. In a climate of general denunciation, 
anyone who doesn't join in is implicated as a dupe, fellow-traveler, etc...

Disclosure: Not only am I not a Communist. I am not even a communist. 
"Communism" was a spectre that haunted Europe in the middle of the 19th 
century and I don't believe in ghosts. According to the Communist 
Manifesto, it was the reactionaries who first conjured up that apparition.

The Sandwichman (aka Mr. Interlocuter)