I never count the many crimes of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as crimes of communism. Because Lenin betrayed the revolution and had the actual communists arrested so that he could cement his totalitarian dictatorship.
He lost the November 1917 election, and threw a hissy fit that caused a civil war.
Which started a long line of dictators pretending to be communists, pretending that communism requires a dictatorship.
If the State owns everything, and has police that will kill you for speaking out, then you don’t live under communism, you live under feudalism in a coat of red paint.
I never count the many crimes of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as crimes of communism. Because Lenin betrayed the revolution and had the actual communists arrested so that he could cement his totalitarian dictatorship.
He lost the November 1917 election, and threw a hissy fit that caused a civil war.
Which started a long line of dictators pretending to be communists, pretending that communism requires a dictatorship.
If the State owns everything, and has police that will kill you for speaking out, then you don’t live under communism, you live under feudalism in a coat of red paint.