Sorry C.C. It means Greenie on the outside and Marxist on the inside. - green on the outside, red on the inside. The people who use that term probably wouldn't know a Marxist from any sort of melon.
Reminds me of the Hitlerists' term "beefsteak Nazis" for SA leader Röhm's socialist faction that Hitler had purged in the Night of the Long Knives, meaning "brown on the outside, red on the inside", since it was where many former members of the Communist Party and other members of the working class had gone, and of course they were the Brownshirts.
Röhm himself wanted to overthrow Hitler, believing Hitler to have failed to fulfill the socialist part of the revolution, and supposedly had plans for wealth redistribution of the richest Germans and nobility. Röhm was well-known at the time to be the only member of Hitler's inner circle to have never fallen for his spell and to have always seen right through him.
Of course, Hitler ultimately had him killed and slaughtered his entire faction, replacing the SA with the SS, and denouncing his former friend as being a "depraved" homosexual—Röhm was publicly, openly homosexual and the SA was known for its gay underground—something he and others had not ever previously cared about, and as a Marxist, etc.
Just how many food metaphors are there to describe people's politics? I would not be surprised if the Australian usage of "watermelon" is derived from Nazi "beefsteaks", considering how much Nazi language has entered common vernacular and continues to poison us today.
Sorry C.C. It means Greenie on the outside and Marxist on the inside. - green on the outside, red on the inside. The people who use that term probably wouldn't know a Marxist from any sort of melon.
Reminds me of the Hitlerists' term "beefsteak Nazis" for SA leader Röhm's socialist faction that Hitler had purged in the Night of the Long Knives, meaning "brown on the outside, red on the inside", since it was where many former members of the Communist Party and other members of the working class had gone, and of course they were the Brownshirts.
Röhm himself wanted to overthrow Hitler, believing Hitler to have failed to fulfill the socialist part of the revolution, and supposedly had plans for wealth redistribution of the richest Germans and nobility. Röhm was well-known at the time to be the only member of Hitler's inner circle to have never fallen for his spell and to have always seen right through him.
Of course, Hitler ultimately had him killed and slaughtered his entire faction, replacing the SA with the SS, and denouncing his former friend as being a "depraved" homosexual—Röhm was publicly, openly homosexual and the SA was known for its gay underground—something he and others had not ever previously cared about, and as a Marxist, etc.
Just how many food metaphors are there to describe people's politics? I would not be surprised if the Australian usage of "watermelon" is derived from Nazi "beefsteaks", considering how much Nazi language has entered common vernacular and continues to poison us today.