Ash Sarkar went viral after a heated exchange with Piers Morgan led her to blurt out "I'm a communist you idiot". Thanks to "comrade Piers" she has since been interviewed by Teen Vogue and she is selling t-shirts. But what does it mean to be a communist in 2018 and can it ever be distanced from the horrors of Mao and Stalin? 

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