• pewter@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The attempt failed. This isn’t really the McCarthy era anymore. Interestingly, that article doesn’t even mention communism.

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      8 months ago

      No it doesn’t. you need to have the context that Venezuela nationalized their oil industry during the Obama years. Was sanctioned, and the sanctions were redoubled under trump.

      Nationalizing industries isn’t necessarily communism, but it is the issue the US oligopoly has with Communism.