dinah-fire t1_iqrm0mr wrote on October 2, 2022 at 4:24 PM

The word 'communism' has been so thoroughly demonized in the US at this point that it doesn't matter what it really stands for--you just can't use that word. It's like how the swastika had a thousand year history of being a religious symbol of piece before the Nazis ruined it. It doesn't matter.. people are still gonna look at it and say 'Nazi'. It doesn't matter that Marx would've been horrified by what the Soviet Union became, that's just what communism means now. Any modern political party with the word 'communist' in it is doomed to failure.

That being said, I've never heard of the Maine Communist Party.

Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrmwz9 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 4:30 PM

See this is a actual thing I get instead of the people just saying “communism killed ____ amount of people” and though the name has been demonized the party is working to help that, we (as in the party) are doing things such as buying farm land to grow food for food banks and working with places such as food and medicine to help unhoused people not die during the winter. If you have a open mind and want to atleast hear what we have to say we have a website you can read about what we do!