by Chris Hedges
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Dandelion Salad
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May 31, 2010
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The witch hunts against communists in the United States were used to silence socialists, anarchists, pacifists and all those who defied the abuses of capitalism. Those “anti-Red” actions were devastating blows to the political health of the country. The communists spoke the language of class war. They understood that Wall Street, along with corporations such as British Petroleum, is the enemy. They offered a broad social vision which allowed even the non-communist left to employ a vocabulary that made sense of the destructive impulses of capitalism.
But once the Communist Party, along with other radical movements, was eradicated as a social and political force, once the liberal class took government-imposed loyalty oaths and collaborated in the witch hunts for phantom communist agents, we were robbed of the ability to make sense of our struggle. We became fearful, timid and ineffectual. We lost our voice and became part of the corporate structure we should have been dismantling.
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Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He has written nine books, including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009) and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003).
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Dandelion Salad 
both communism and capitilism are failures . the main trouble with communists is that they despise ”volunteerism ”. and in communists countrys that is the first thing they outlaw . why ? becuase it exposes their systematic rule . this country needs a few good citizens of consceince.
I am certainly in agreement with Chris Hedges. I would go further and say that not only the USA but also most other capitalist countries-which includes almost the whole world-needs “a few good communists”.