I'm so tried of this "radical left boogeyman" narrative!

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8. As I taught in my history classes for 23 years, tyrants need a nebulous boogeyman to keep people afraid

Xi Jinping used "capitalist reactionaries" when I lived in China.
Mao used "capitalist roaders"
During the cold war, it was "Communists."

There doesn't need to be any defnition. . .it just needs to be an idea of someone who is opposed to what the standing order wants to do, even if what the enemy wants benefits you.

Orwell was wrong. The use of Emmanuel Goldstein as the enemy is wrong because Emmanuel Goldstein can do something a vague, hard to define idea can't do. . .Goldstein can die. Once the enemy (a person) dies, there is no enemy. WW2 proved that. The enemy was Hitler. Once he was gone, the ones that need enemies to cash checks had to find something else.

And an idea is must more frightening than a person. Keep the rubes terrified and you can run to the bank and subjugate them as they will only be concerned with remaining safe.

That's what radical left means. It's an easy thing to say but asked to define it, you'll get a thousand different answers.