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biggestofbears t1_iqrdg7c wrote

Reply to comment by kovid2020 in What do people on this sub think about the Maine Communist Party by [deleted]

I'm not pro capitalism at all... Pretty socialist. But there aren't any "Maine Capitalist Party" groups. This is the same vein.

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrop9b wrote

Democrats and republicans both support capitalism? They say so all the time

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biggestofbears t1_iqrp8qk wrote

Sure, but they don't put capitalism in the name. Its just not a good PR move. Putting communism in the name just starts with a trigger word for a LOT of people.

I'm not saying Republicans or Democrats are the right answer, but if either party put "US Capitalism Party" a lot of people would not vote for them simply because of the name.

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrq8gq wrote

Yeah but the fun thing with that is if we called ourselves something like “the leftist coalition party” or “the people’s party” people would say we’re trying to trick people into liking communism so we’re in a damned if we do damned we don’t situation

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biggestofbears t1_iqrs1hf wrote

Yeah you've got a solid point there. I think the biggest hurdle is breaking down people's perception of what communism is and separating the party from failed communist states.

Ask anyone semi-literate in the political world if communism works and they can point to a number of countries that tried it and failed, and that's a pretty big hurdle to get past.

I think this post was a start. I guess. But it didn't give anyone information about it, other than the name. Having a link. Or listing values. Or even saying "the Maine Communist Party as X candidate running for x seat would have been a bigger step in at least introducing it to people.

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrsm05 wrote

Yeah! I just wasn’t sure if link posting was against the subs rules

And we aren’t running any candidates this year but we’re planning on running some next year.

We, like most leftist, don’t want to give republicans a chance to win so we decided as a party to run on a off year to minimize the chance that a fascist gets a seat

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