It was posted to Hexbear 5 months ago, likening Fuad Nassar’s introduction to communism from British authorities to Mahmood Mamdani’s introduction to Marx from an FBI interrogation.

Fuad Nassar, the great Palestinian communist, became a communist in Iraq, when the British authorities accused him of being a communist, even though he’d never heard of communism before. “Communism must be good if it pisses you so much,” he told them. And then became a communist.