This thread is dedicated to all who those fought in the name of communism, all those who fought alongside those who fought in the name of communism and all those who did not know they fought alongside those who fought in the name of communism.
This is especially dedicated to those who fought in the name of communism but have since suffered from memory loss, family and parental concerns, pressures from a dominant and affluent capitalist society or simply to avoid a much maligned or stigmatised cause prefer not to be associated with the cause.
I am sure it is not lost on some that if the PAP had arrested the 22 under Operation Spectrum for "Leftist Conspiracy" or the Operation Cold Store was to rid the country of Left and Socialist United Front Members, we would be calling ourselves communist dedicated to the cause of achieving a classless society with common ownership of property.
I am pretty certain if I had my formative years growing up in a colonial world where I was not a member of the ruling class and treated as the subservient underclass, Communism would not only be appealing, I would have been a raging communist and armed one to boot.
The PAP ran with the communists from 1954 to 1963. In fact more than half the founding members and nearly all its ordinary members were communists or associated with the communists. There was no one else to fight the colonial masters. Everyone who was not a running dog then was either a communist, a crypto-communist, a pseudo-communist, a communist sympathiser or a communist united front operative. The term "activist" was not in vogue then. If you known to be a communist or an ally of one, you had the respect of your community.
So what happened in the intervening years?
This is especially dedicated to those who fought in the name of communism but have since suffered from memory loss, family and parental concerns, pressures from a dominant and affluent capitalist society or simply to avoid a much maligned or stigmatised cause prefer not to be associated with the cause.
I am sure it is not lost on some that if the PAP had arrested the 22 under Operation Spectrum for "Leftist Conspiracy" or the Operation Cold Store was to rid the country of Left and Socialist United Front Members, we would be calling ourselves communist dedicated to the cause of achieving a classless society with common ownership of property.
I am pretty certain if I had my formative years growing up in a colonial world where I was not a member of the ruling class and treated as the subservient underclass, Communism would not only be appealing, I would have been a raging communist and armed one to boot.
The PAP ran with the communists from 1954 to 1963. In fact more than half the founding members and nearly all its ordinary members were communists or associated with the communists. There was no one else to fight the colonial masters. Everyone who was not a running dog then was either a communist, a crypto-communist, a pseudo-communist, a communist sympathiser or a communist united front operative. The term "activist" was not in vogue then. If you known to be a communist or an ally of one, you had the respect of your community.
So what happened in the intervening years?
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