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Stop the hyperbole. Jacobin is more like social democrat (what most nominally social democrat parties used to do, but aren't doing anymore). That's about two significant notches less communist than communism.

Jacobin is more like social democrat

they always tell you who they really are: look up les jacobins in the French revolution.

Two tiny notches.

One is a dictatorship (well that is how it turns out every time), the other is a democracy, for starters. If that is not a huge difference to you...

Jacobin is more like social democrat

”The goal of socialism is Communism.” - Lenin

It’s always sold as “a little bit of socialism.”

Every country, every time in history.

The author of this transparent propaganda is a student in a college. When I was his age, I was a socialist too. It’s just youth and inexperience.

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