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b_b · 3590 days ago · link · · parent · post: Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird", is publishing a second book: Go Set a Watchman
The meaningful difference was that communists were actually a thing then, and it was their stated goal to make communism the world's system. We can look back and strongly disagree with many of the methods they employed, but they had a legit enemy and were right to oppose them. Today's neocons lack such an enemy and have used terrorists as their strawman to fight for world corporatism.