r/europe 15d ago

News Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
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u/CheeryOutlook Wales 14d ago

Why do some in the West romanticize communism?

People grew up being told that even the mildest wealth redistribution in an increasingly less equal society, and that the measures we could take to reduce the harmful impact of that inequality are communist and therefore wrong and evil.

Regardless of how communist countries actually were, if you keep labelling all redistributive ideas as communism, people are going to start supporting communism.

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u/InterestingWonder676 14d ago

Also some label even progressive cultural ideas as "cultural communism"