In Spain, the Communist Party (PCE) was legalized on April 9, 1977, but many adults today seem not to know it.
Communists do not have horns or tails, they do not go around eating children, nor do they leave a trail of disappeared people in mass graves behind them. The PCE does not question the political system of the State, because to be legalized they had to accept the parliamentary monarchy and recognize the flag imposed by Franco as their own, as is still done in Spain. However, the far-right insults or despises parties that accept the Constitution, reneging on the Magna Carta itself, and nothing happens.
The most serious thing is not that some media outlets or spokespeople for the right continue to demonize communism, but that there are still those who listen without asking themselves what they are being told.
Those who receive these messages are witnesses to the brutalities and genocides of the international capitalist right, which seems to be the origin of the anti-communist message, and they do no more than make some sad comment. At the same time, when they see the left mobilizing against that international right and its murders, they stand up and point to it as "communist," filling their mouths with the word, as if it were a disqualification, without fear of a dictionary from the Royal Spanish Academy appearing to them at night.
The right also does not lose its smile when it threatens to end pensions, social benefits, or Social Security, a system that led the State to have one of the highest life expectancies in the world. For them, the deaths during the pandemic due to their neoliberal or capitalist policy, which reduces Social Security to ashes little by little, should be overlooked, as happened with the 7,291 people in residences who were denied medical attention in Ayuso's Madrid. The same Madrid that murdered Maricarmen Abascal and an unknown number of anonymous people with its liberal policy.
Knowing the Constitution or respecting diversity will not be part of new tests to measure illiteracy; those are things for reds or students preparing for competitive exams. The rest should not try so hard.
Furthermore, knowing too much endangers the vote of the workers for the rich that the right represents. The same right that attacks the rights or possible benefits of the weakest in society every time it opens its mouth.
The next elections are not just a duel of parties; ignorance and common sense also face off.
Personally, from my ignorance, I have hope that common sense will prevail.
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