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'Communist' isn't the cat call it used to be

'Communist' isn't the cat call it used to be

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Matt Nolan
May 21, 2014
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I see Kiwiblog cat calling the Labour party as Communist, because it wants to have a bunch of policy settings that are seen as either common or at least admissible nowadays - but were revolutionary in the mid-nineteenth century.

I honestly don't see the point in doing this.  The Cold War is over now, and both social and physical scientists are finally ge…

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