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Yeah I feel like a broken record myself. It’s tough because there’s such a huge population of people who have been taught ‘communism = evil dictatorship’ and not think critically about any of it, read any of the literature, study the history of it, etc.

I could go on but I am sure you know already.

You’re confusing ML’s who are authoritarian with non authoritarian ideology like marxists (minus the lenninism) or other forms of communism. Arguably ML’s are only communist in name. Similar to how the NDSP for the Nazi party was not a socialist party - they just picked up a false flag because it was popular. And that’s often the problem with western teaching on socialism and communism - there is a massive conflation with what it actually is and what malefactors (e.g. Lennin/Stalin or so many other dictatorship examples) have projected on to it.

Personally, I’m very open-minded and I try not to judge a book by its cover.

It’s not just the cover, and now you know that. In fact, it’s the cover that misled you.

There’s a reason most instances are de-fed from them. Play with fire and get burned I don’t know what you expected. This post makes you seem either oblivious or knowing but still complaining.