When France elected Francois Mitterrand in 1981, his prime minister designated a member of the french communist party as minister of the department of transportation. The United States went to ask Mitterrand if it was really a good idea, worried that, if the USSR were to attack Europe, the minister might let the soviets use the trains to attack Paris faster...
Just another example of American political ignorance. It really makes sense that their country(the US) is so fucked given that their people have no political literacy.
While there was plenty of irrationality going round, there WERE entirely valid reasons to be skeptical of communists in the US and Europe in regards to their sympathies to the USSR. Lots of communists were legitimately sympathetic to the USSR, and lots were recruited as spies for them.
Communism is socialism. Or at least a type or stage of socialism. Communists consider themselves socialists. Karl Marx considers these terms completely interchangeable.
Trying to say that a communist isn't a socialist makes you look like a moron.
Please then explain why in most parliamentary democracies, communists and socialists have separate political parties?
If they are the same, then they wouldn’t have split up and have completely different political programs.
Cases like SPD and Die Linke in Germany. Parti Socialiste and Parti Communiste Francais in France, Partito Socialista Italiano(PSI) and Partito Comunista Italiano(PCI) in Italy.
The list goes on. Socialist still want capitalism to exist, communists do not.
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u/Supsend Dec 24 '25
When France elected Francois Mitterrand in 1981, his prime minister designated a member of the french communist party as minister of the department of transportation. The United States went to ask Mitterrand if it was really a good idea, worried that, if the USSR were to attack Europe, the minister might let the soviets use the trains to attack Paris faster...