I think the left-wing sci-fi fandom has a larger explicitly pro-communist streak than in general progressivism, perhaps due to the influence of, and reaction against, anti-communist MilSF. I remember there was a minor dust-up when Brad Torgersen referred to villains in a story as "ChiComs." Some lefties insisted it was a racial slur, somehow.
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I think the left-wing sci-fi fandom has a larger explicitly pro-communist streak than in general progressivism, perhaps due to the influence of, and reaction against, anti-communist MilSF. I remember there was a minor dust-up when Brad Torgersen referred to villains in a story as "ChiComs." Some lefties insisted it was a racial slur, somehow.
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