[lbo-talk] attitudes towards religion

[Gar Lipow]

On 10/1/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> How old is the guy who has a view about Communists? I
> guess the thing I find remarkable is that the thought
> of Communists would come into his mind at all. In this
> country, and especially today, any views about
> Communists are sort of like the Elizabethan idea of
> atheists, no one had ever actually met one, spoken to
> one, seen one even, but one knew, somehow, that they
> were the Enemies of Humankind

As Bitch said, and as you suggest the idea "communist" has survived
the idea as general term for the evil, the painful, or the
inconvenient - especially if you can make a pun on "reds" . A lot of
women I know refer to painful periods  their monthly "invasion by the
communists".