Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months agoLaws are interpreted and wielded by those in power. The Democrats are already called Communists, what happens if a genuine Socialist party takes some amount of power?
Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months agoLaws are interpreted and wielded by those in power. The Democrats are already called Communists, what happens if a genuine Socialist party takes some amount of power?
force@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s literally an argument against anything that exists at all. That’s kind of how laws work, linguistics is complicated so everyone’s interpretation is different. But as it stands, communist parties are not banned. What you speak of is a big “what if”, and currently you saying communism as a whole is banned is simply wrong, even as an oversimplification.
It is a big stretch to turn “Parties other than the two largest ones in the country have considerable cultural, legal, and logistical obstacles to being able to participate in high-level American politics, and an unenforced law from 70 years ago banned one specific communist party before most of the provisions being repealed by congress and thr law being overturned in state courts as unconstitutional” into “Communism is banned in the United States”. There is no legal way to criminally prosecute someone on the basis of them being a communist in the modern day.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s an intentionally anti-Communist law, it’s pretty simple to see how Communism is legally unfavored.
force@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s very far from “banned”. That’s the point. Plenty of things are very disfavored legally, but it’s absurd to call them banned. Communism is one of them. There’s a whole list of openly socialist&/communist mayors in the US on Wikipedia, even. I can openly be extremely communist and the government won’t do anything about it. I can even attend a communist protest and that’s as legal as any other protest.