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I don't understand whats so hard with understanding communism.
You all work for a similar wage. There is universal health and education.
All the other stuff are just truisms that you find it every dogma, all used to justify their system and the controls to maintain it.
In the 100 plus years since its development every communist state has faced crazy amounts of external aggression and hate.
This has forced them to double down on the industrial military complex, which, because their a communist state, allowed to dedicate even more resources to the endeavour of war then even a capitalistic state could.
However being hopelessly out numbered by hostile countries the paranoia and hate overwhelmed there initial desire to make a utopia.
Which, when combined with the knocking off, one by one, of their allies, and the Iraq war (which lead to oil revenues collapsing when oil hit $20 a barrel) the USSR, rightly so, collapsed.
But this doesn't make communism instrically wrong or bad. Just it was a idea that faced crazy amounts of hostility.
And I am by no means a communist. A socialist with borderline anarchist tendencies.
Initial desire to make a utopia in USSR survived exactly until right after the first elections they tried to hold. If Lenin didn't just decide that actually, no, we don't like giving power to the people, I might have had more sympathy.
You are right in that communism is not inherently bad. But also the people trying to implement it didn't really give a fuck about actually getting there.
Good ole Lenin, simultaneously won and defeated the revolution.