“1936 actually. 1936 communist goals kicked it off.”
Norm, my parents moved to San Francisco in 1936. They told me that at that time, the “professors” at UC Berkeley were openly saying that it was their stated goal to turn Berkeley into the first Communist City in the country. Sad to say, I went to UC Berkeley in the 1960’s (back when Jerry Brown’s father was gassing the student protests there with a helicopter) and even then Berkeley was well on it’s way to being communist. And now, I live about 20 miles east of (and a million miles politically) that $hit hole and it still a commie dump. So your number is right on!
To be sure there has been communism in some form everywhere even before Marx. Same ideas, different name. But from what I have read, the 1936 communist goals were the real push here in America to unify the commrades. And when you read that thing it’s basically a complete history of liberalism in America. They hit every one of the goals.
Yes, the Soviet union no longer exists in name. But thats only a name. The goals, actions and people are the same.