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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jun 2020

      The Soviet Union has been dead for nearly 30 years now. Yet it still haunts the imagination of many Americans, both liberal & conservative. That's strange.

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    2. Adam Serwer  🍝‏Verified account @AdamSerwer 17 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      The confederacy has been gone for 150. It obviously retains cultural ans political relevance. This is a weird take!

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jun 2020
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      Sure but there are many more neo-Confederates in America than there are tankies.

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    4. Adam Serwer  🍝‏Verified account @AdamSerwer 17 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Right, but the Confederacy matters because of how it shaped the political and policy trends that led to the present, not simply because of the present number of its uncritical political devotees. Similarly, the Soviet Union had a tremendous impact on world history and ours.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jun 2020
      Replying to @AdamSerwer

      Fair enough! Still, back in 1991 it really felt like Leninism was not just defeated by now only of antiquarian interest (Fukuyama's End of History essay caught that mood). So the persistent afterlife always surprises me.

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        2. Adam Serwer  🍝‏Verified account @AdamSerwer 17 Jun 2020
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          I think there are obviously frivolous ways to invoke it, but it makes sense that it’s still a part of our political consciousness generally.

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        2. Malaclypse‏ @Mal_A_Clypse 17 Jun 2020
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          Yes, but there still is an active Leninist party, and the United States is ruled by it.

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        3. Etim*  🇺🇦‏ @EtimOyoIta 17 Jun 2020
          Replying to @Mal_A_Clypse @HeerJeet @AdamSerwer

          With the other big party being Marxist, of course.

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        1. John Fake Meat Peach Tree Dish Manager O'Connor‏ @JohnO0Connor 17 Jun 2020
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          Are you surprised by sunrises...?

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        1. Dave Buehrer‏ @BuehrerDave 17 Jun 2020
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          Damn, man, that nostalgia for Soviet Communism was already there in 1995 when I was on exchange in northern Russia for 5 months. The crony capitalism of the “New Russians” wasn’t a great alternative to their former economic system, at least.

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        2. Trying to get on Tucker‏ @AWeinerdad 18 Jun 2020

          I have. You won’t hear anything about Leninism.

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