Communism
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Economic Anxiety and the Appeal of Communism on Campus
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Many students in Waterloo have noticed the bright red stickers and posters plastered around the Laurier campus, displaying graphics ranging from Luigi Mangione to anti-Capitalist rhetoric both in and outside academic buildings. While the nature of these stickers and posters may vary, they all function as recruitment tools for the Kitchener-Waterloo branch of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The RCP is a recently established political group rapidly growing in numbers, targeting student and worker populations and demanding immediate anti-capitalist action. With that established, the question remains; why are students in Waterloo supposedly turning toward communism? We know that…
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