I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.
I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I’m asking the people who know better than Google.
The current usage is as an anticommunist pejorative and McCarthyite strawman.
That’s just what you want it to mean so you can distance yourselves from the term entirely.
Wikipedia has a pretty clear cut definition, and it’s the one the majority of people (who aren’t one themselves anyways) use
I gave a clear-cut and more useful definition that actively reflects reality. There are no groups liberals would consider “non-authoritarian” and communist that have any relevance. It’s in practice a pejorative for communists, full-stop.