The Communists in Graz are very good at PR, with their politicians often being seen doing good deeds/walking the walk and donating chunks of their salaries. Tender, for example, was effusive about them and always was glad when they did well, even though he is not a communist by any means.
The Milwaukee note is a good one: they are textbook sewer socialists.
Ofcourse they have the same problem of loving authotarainsm and dictatorships that every other communism suffers from.
Werner Murgg, one of only two communist MPs in the state parliament of Styria, praised the Lukashenko regime on Belarussian television during a visit to the country in August and referred to “stability and order” in Europe’s last dictatorship.
He claimed that the West is waging “a hybrid war against Belarus” and stated that he was “pleasantly surprised” about how open the society was when he was spending his vacation there.
While he later backpedalled in an official statement and tried to distance himself from the regime in Belarus, the damage had already been done.
