>- The fact that repressive, totalitarian Communist regimes
>were leftist. I grew up in the 80's - early 2000's, when
>leftism was presented as being about freedom of expression and
>pacifism and dispensing with "rules" (Puritanism). When I was
>growing up, that kind of Iron Curtain repression seemed like
>what I was told the rightwing wanted, not the left. Edited to
>add: leftism was presented as this touchy-feely thing, when
>for much of the 20th century it was the opposite of that.