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I think promoting any extreme politics is a fundamentally a bad idea - if she is doing what you say she is doing then I guess I strongly disagree with her methods.
“I’m literally a communist, you idiot.”
That is absolutely 100% allying yourself with the communist ideology and all that entails.
I think that's a bad idea as it normalises an extremely damaging ideology. You wouldn't have anyone on daytime TV proclaiming that they are a Nazi (well I'm sure they could find someone but wouldn't let them on).
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I don't understand how anyone can think they want to go full Red October or that it's morally the equivalent of a right wing, nationalist stance.
That is a product of how you see the debate though.
As an extreme e.g. if I wear a Swastika T-shirt and justify it by saying; "I support the Nazi policy aim of public work programmes, and public exercise incentives, not all the bad shit", everyone would have a fit and argue the point. But if I rock a t-shirt with a hammer and sickle no one would even ask the question as it's such a mainstream image it probably came from Topshop.
Also in relation to the moral equivalence - both require an extreme level of coercion by the state. That you personally think the destruction of property rights and redistribution of wealth based on a inevitably small cabal of peoples view is morally superior, is open to debate.
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People like Ash saying they're a communist is a reaction against the current neo-liberal system and government imposed austerity that has really affected our generation. It's an attempt to push society to a more even stance so people don't get left behind in poverty. I don't understand how anyone can think they want to go full Red October or that it's morally the equivalent of a right wing, nationalist stance.