By Zurab Andronikashvili
Halloween is a time when we celebrate what scares us but for some reason the other-worldly and supernatural are the main objects of our fear. There was a time when communism, with all of its dreary proletarian symbolism, was the scariest thing grown men and women in positions of power could imagine. Some might argue that they were not scared of ideological communism but an epic scale of repression marketed as Soviet or Stalinist communism. But in all honesty, to the bourgeois even ideological socialism is pretty terrifying.
Halloween is a time when we celebrate what scares us but for some reason the other-worldly and supernatural are the main objects of our fear. There was a time when communism, with all of its dreary proletarian symbolism, was the scariest thing grown men and women in positions of power could imagine. Some might argue that they were not scared of ideological communism but an epic scale of repression marketed as Soviet or Stalinist communism. But in all honesty, to the bourgeois even ideological socialism is pretty terrifying.
