• Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    I’ve never understood leftist paranoia of feds from the 70s onwards

    from the 70 onwards

    COINTELPRO, the murder of civil rights activists and revolutionaries, and the coups against progressive leaders in postcolonial nations all contributed heavily to a general paranoia which is not entirely unjustified, if a bit excessive at times. I remember the first time I ever encountered information like this:

    I felt angry, paranoid, and depressed for an entire day