Anonymous asked: "I could get an article published in basically every mainstream magazine arguing for communism" I find this questionable. Can you really imagine an article in Time or The Economist that would be advocating Communism?

Yeah, I can. In the Economist it’d probably be a lengthy thinkpiece on some Marxist economist’s analysis explaining the failure of partially-socialized medicine and laying out how they’d want it to work in a Communist state, and it’d be peppered with references to revitalizing an ideology tainted - “perhaps rightly, and perhaps permanently” - by its legacy in Eastern Europe. There’d be a quote from a market monetarist sputtering indignantly.

In TIME it’d be an edgy trend-piece with glossy pictures of 20-somethings with colored hair and it’d try to draw a straight line through Occupy Wall Street and the Ferguson protests as shared radical disillusionment with inequality and the state. There’d be a colored textbox with someone saying Communism didn’t work in Russia or China because what they were doing wasn’t Communism, and a graph showing income inequality in those countries graphed against income inequality in the U.S. today (despite the fact that we’d all just agreed they Didn’t Represent Communism.) It’d quote Marx but, like, his critiques of capitalism, not his proposed solution.