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we are not in red scare 3 for no reason, this strikes me as doomer undialectical handwaving. they are doing this because they see communism as more of a threat than they did 20 years ago. which it is. there is a material reason for this trajectory, it's not random
The reason is that Imperialism is collapsing.
The crackdown on "the left" at home is part of the same process being imposed on Latin America: the capital is trying to strengthen its grip on the "home turf" in order to prepare for an all out war with China.
I don't mean for it today come across that way, I largely agree with your perspective. I think its more to do with the powers that be sensing a normalization of anti capitalist and anti imperialist rhetoric, a change in the tide as the material conditions become harder to ignore, than to do with some specific development like an underground party becoming the vanguard or doing anything that could be construed as "terrorism." But I realize I didn't say all that in my comment haha, it was what I was thinking when writing it though
we are mostly in agreement then:)
There doesn't need to be a vanguard party for there to be a threat of violence... With more people becoming anti-capitalists and anti-imperialists every day, for better or for worse we'll get more adventurists like Luigi and Tyler. While that's unlikely to threaten the system as a whole, it's clear that Kirk’s assassination hit very close to home for them - they're not just afraid of the system being threatened, they fear for their own lives.