Mark Crispin Miller Sent Me An Email Translating For Me Why "Communism" Does Not Land On Many American Ears As A Measure Of Evil But Rather, An Old Weapon Word

I appreciated it, and asked if I could publish it

“The charge of "communism" for what's going on today makes people flinch not necessarily because they're soft on Bolshevism (though many are), but because that accusation was so viciously deployed, from 1947 on, to shatter labor unions, stigmatize consumer protections, overthrow democratic governments and otherwise promote the interests of (what we once…