Suppose the late Ron had been a fascist instead of a communist, and – as is not very likely - The Guardian had accorded him space for an obituary, would it not have been possible to write the following?
Like so many of his generation, he was deeply affected by mass unemployment, poverty, and the threat of communism and war, so he joined the British Union of Fascists.
[Emphasis mine.]
Dalrymple goes on to explain how we've become accepting of communists as do-gooders, and dismisses the myth of it being a moral position. RTWT.
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