Comment by phatskat

This feels like a lot of putting positions onto a group for them in order to discount their beliefs.

Most left left left folk that I know have zero idealization about Rome or the USSR, and haven’t forgotten the atrocities the US has committed both home and abroad.

Anyone who seriously talks about the Roman Empire without wrestling with the realities of it is putting their head in the sand.

Anyone pining for the USSR probably doesn’t know a lot of what went on during its existence. Similarly most people actually wanting some form of communism or socialism probably don’t mean “just like the USSR”.