Elaine Marie Benes: Oh well nothing wrong with that. Gotta make those big bucks... money money money money money money money... ha ha ha ha ah... are you a communist?
Ned: Yes, as a matter of fact I am.
Elaine Marie Benes: Oh, ah! Oh! Wow! Whoa! A Commie! Wow, gee, man it must be a bummer for you guys, what with the fall of the Soviet empire and everything.
Ned: Yeah, well, we still got China, and Cuba.
Elaine Marie Benes: Yeah, but come on...
Ned: I know it's not the same.
Elaine Marie Benes: Well, you had a good run. What was it 75, 80 years? Wreaking havoc, making everybody nervous.
you're missing the best exchange from that episode:
Elaine (gifting Ned a shirt, which he says is 'too fancy'): Just because you're a communist, does that mean you can't wear anything nice? You look like Trotsky
COULD NOT FUCKING BE ME bursting at the seams with half-remembered quotes from the Manifesto every time some normo lib complains about inflation or cops
Me irl soooometimes. It's a double edged sword, I've got the passionate about meaningful things and can discuss them with a good level of understanding and explain them without coming off like a jerk usually, buuuuuut I will IRl UlyssesT people's cringe tastes
We have our own lexicon that makes it's obvious if we don't carefully modulate your own patterns of speech.
Capital workers imperialism empire labor electoralism exploitation owner class bourgeoisie proletarian etc etc.
It's not that nobody else uses these words but we use them to describe things that liberals use other terms for. They prefer words that normalize capitalism and have been normalized by capitalism. They don't call their own country an empire (generally speaking) or call their boss part of the owner class.