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I take the most favorable interpretation and I presume that the young age is in play in such large ignorance.

Obviously the notion of poets doesn't contain all of them like the ones who write rhymes for children but poetry has since Age of Enlightenment been a tool of political critique if not earlier. The same applies to philosophy. I'm hope that you for sure have heard of Marx.

I also hope that you have learned about civil rights movement of the black people and Martin Luther King.

So which one of all of the four has the support of a large superstate with an extensive spy network?

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And what comes to McCarthy then he had every right to be extremely paranoid about the activities of Soviet Union in attempts to secretly influence American politics from the within. The work of American counter intelligence agencies is a clear proof of it.

no because a healthy politics does include alternative views. It is the unhealthy security mindset that becomes inflexible @! and does anyone now support the activity of Senator Joe McCarthy, honestly?

> I take the most favorable interpretation and I presume that the young age is in play in such large ignorance.

The US are just one of the 195 countries in the World; don’t assume that everyone on the Internet is 1- living in the US and/or 2- familiar with the US culture as if it were the center of the world.

The context here is clearly US - hint: FBI.

Clear for you. https://xkcd.com/1053/

I'm not from US, but fair enough, just the article is very obviously about US if you cared to read it even superficially.

But now I'm curious from where you are from and how you don't know about civil rights movement of blacks in US. Does the name Martin Luther King tell you anything?

The comment talked about "world revolution" and a "wide spy network" so it was not immediately clear to me that the infiltration you were taking about where only on domestic soil like what the article was about.

OK. The only communist "world power" at the time was USSR (Soviet Union) that was factually dominated and controlled by Russia. They had from the very beginning (revolution in Russia) dreamed about the world domination. They tried already right after the revolution to overtake Europe but were stopped by Poland. Next attempt was during WW2 but they were first stopped by Germany and then by US (partially, as even part of Germany was occupied by them).

USSR had very wide spy network and they had considerably infiltrated US.

China was also overtaken by communists and had some influence among some naive Western intellectuals but I don't know about direct influence in US (maybe it existed, I'm just not aware of it).

These days of course both Russia and China are actively attempting to extend their influence through spy networks or by manipulations in social media (and yes, there are also obvious shill accounts here).

You couldn't tell that this article was about the US? "FBI" and "JFK assassination" didn't tip you off? Did you read the article?

I read it, but I responded to a comment without taking the article in context.

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