Maybe “communist” by the 60s definition as in anyone to the left of keynes then yeah I guess so, but MLK wasn’t a communist in any real political sense.
The analogy still holds though, many of the leaders OP is pointing out are regressive right wing nationalist who would naturally align with putin without being agents of the Kremlin.
Both these accusations tend to put the blame of these movements on foreigners meddling with our democracy instead of real strains of thought coming from that democracy that need to be addressed.
I mean, many of those leaders were communists… But not agents of the Soviets, which was a convenient accusation tho
Maybe “communist” by the 60s definition as in anyone to the left of keynes then yeah I guess so, but MLK wasn’t a communist in any real political sense.
The analogy still holds though, many of the leaders OP is pointing out are regressive right wing nationalist who would naturally align with putin without being agents of the Kremlin.
Both these accusations tend to put the blame of these movements on foreigners meddling with our democracy instead of real strains of thought coming from that democracy that need to be addressed.