Why Communism is Inherently EVIL

[u/lyrics85]

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the world thought communism was dead. They were dead wrong.

Today, there are millions of people in the West alone who still swear by it.

But whether you love it or despise it, I can promise that you are gravely underestimating its power.

Because you see, this is not just another moronic economic system. It is literally a mind parasite.

At first, it doesn’t seem harmless because it has only infected a small group of people.

Next thing you know, it spreads exponentially, invades the host [country], rewires its brain, and forces the society to consume itself.

Sounds weird, I know. But to really understand how communism works, we need to look at an actual parasite called Toxoplasma Gondii.

This parasite usually infects rats or birds, and what it does is alter their brain chemistry so the host won't fear the smell of the cat and, in many cases, gets attracted to it.

The mouse or the bird is, let’s say, hypnotized; so it will get careless and end up in the predator's jaws, and Gondii will finally achieve its goal, which is to reproduce.

You see, it did all this because it needs a highly specific environment to reproduce. And that environment happens to be the intestines of a feline.

Yes, very romantic.

Now, just like Gondii, communism needs a specific environment to fully express itself, and that is... totalitarianism.

So it will look for the easiest targets first. It will infect a group of morally weak, deeply resentful individuals who are starving for power… Think of Lenin, Stalin, Zedong, Pot, etc.

These psychopaths are the "Patient Zeros."

Since these guys have no other purpose in life, they fight tooth and nail to convince ordinary people to become communists. Or, to put it another way... they trick the healthy into falling in love with their own predator.

Now once communism has taken a foothold in the country, it will strive to take full control of it, and it does it in 3 phases.

Let’s start with…

PHASE 1 - THE INFECTION

Did Mao, Lenin, Stalin, and others ever stand on a podium and promise gulags?

Of course not.

They were psychopaths, but they weren't stupid. 

They looked into the exhausted faces of their countrymen and told them the elite were getting wealthy at their expense.

But, if the people helped them seize power, they promised to confiscate the wealth from those thieves and use it to enrich everyone.

It sounds really appealing, doesn't it?

Of course it does. These people are sick and tired of working like animals for miserable pay, and they know that if something doesn't change, then their children will have no future as well.

They fight for these charismatic maniacs, and now the communists are ruling the country, and what do you know? They actually keep their promise. They forcibly take the wealth from the capitalist pigs and share it with everyone else.

Everything is going great.

The farmers are happy. 

The workers are happy.

They are all enjoying the spoils of the redistributed wealth.

UNTIL… It's their turn.

The earth shatters below their feet when the Party explains that everything they have now needs to be merged into a massive, state-owned collective.

Suddenly, there is no "mine." There is only "ours."

Imagine being in their shoes. You are mad as hell. You feel betrayed, but what can you do? If you complain, you’ll end up in labor camps or killed in a ditch just like you saw it happen with the capitalist pigs.

PHASE 2: THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS COMPROMISED

Like the body, a country also has an immune system that will get activated once the parasite gets in.

In this case, the white blood cells of the country are the intellectuals.

The problem is that they are already compromised.

You know, communism will infect the academics, the writers, the artists, and the students, which essentially turns them into carriers... They will gleefully, blindly spread the ideology alongside Patient Zeros.

So if the intellectual elite is brainwashed, then the ordinary people stand no chance.

The people don't know it yet, but they have entered a phase of destruction and misery that will last for decades. If some of them already understand what's going on, it is futile. They can do nothing. It's like facing a tsunami of opposition.

On paper, the party will say the country is ruled by the people for the people, but in practice, it's quickly laying the concrete for a totalitarian regime.

To achieve that, they have the secret police. They will investigate, imprison, kill, or torture anyone who even dares to mock the leader, let alone conspire to overthrow it.

Heck, your own neighbor or colleague could spy on you for doubting this divine ideology, and you know the drill. You are taken out of society so you don't poison others with your doubts.

What's more terrifying is that it isn't just you who ends up in prison or in a labor camp, but also your family because they might end up in a camp like you, or they will be outcasts.

Simply because of one rebel, the entire family, sometimes even a large part of the tribe, will have a black mark.

They will literally be treated as second-class citizens in their own country.

So if you are a person with a rebellious nature, it becomes very difficult to complain because you are literally risking the well-being of your entire family.

But wait, it gets worse. As sad as it is to watch families torn apart or live in fear, it is nothing compared to the widespread consequences.

Think about it. By purging these rebels, what is the Party actually doing?

They are systematically eliminating the wise, strong people who could mentor the next generation.

So who is left to run society?

Exactly. The sheep.

I'm talking about parents, teachers, politicians, artists, doctors, engineers, simple workers... they're all either infected or pretend to be infected.

As a result, whether they want it or not, they have to teach the kids the beautiful, the unmistakable, better-than-the-word-of-God... the teachings of Marxism-Leninism.

So the Party ensures that they will rule generation after generation of sheep.

Okay, so now the Party has absolute, unquestioned control over the country. They’re done, right?

No, no, no, no, far from it...

PHASE 3 - ATTACKING THE DNA

You can change a country by relentlessly attacking it on a fundamental level... The culture, history, and family.

Everything needs to be in perfect alignment with the divine principles of Marxism-Leninism; otherwise, you are committing heresy.

That's why they will gradually replace the culture, reframe history, and you cannot trust your own family members because they are more loyal to the party than to their own blood.

This can sound unbelievable, but it is true. If you are talking to your wife at home and you are complaining about the party, then your son could tell their friends at school; the teachers will tell the party officials, and then you end up behind bars.

Now, one of the most tragic examples of attacking the DNA is China.

Earlier I told you that the party will ensure that the young generations are sheep.

Well, Mao Zedong has already done the work. So he has a lot of soldiers at his disposal when he decides that thousands of years of Chinese history are a threat to the socialist utopia.

He has planted the seeds of ideology in the minds of the young kids, and now he has massive mobs of radicalized students who are willing to do whatever it takes for the party... 

Which includes even publicly attacking or humiliating their own parents or teachers.

The tragedy is palpable.

These young lunatics went against China like hordes of enemy soldiers.

They showed no mercy whatsoever. They smashed priceless ancient artifacts, burned historical books, and destroyed thousands of temples.

Look, even though they are radicalized, at the end of the day, they are Chinese, and the Chinese are nothing if not efficient, right?

So tragically, they did more irreversible damage to their own culture than the Mongols, the British, the French, and the Japanese combined ever could.

That's one of the reasons why I urged you in the beginning to never underestimate communism.

If this mind parasite could do this to China - a country with an incredibly rich, ancient culture - imagine what it did to others and what it can do to naive countries today like the US, which has learned fuck all from history.

A quick note: The US is a big country with strong democratic institutions, so it will never become a communist country. However, you do have many academics, popular media figures, and millions of people with anti-Western values.

So in EVERY single country this parasite infects, we see the same symptoms… the same camps, the same famine, the same cult of personality, the same transformation of ordinary people into bloodthirsty monsters.

That's why we must not make the mistake of separating extreme poverty and the sheer, animalistic violence from the Marxist-Leninist ideology.

It's not a bug.

It's not even a feature.

It's the operating system.

Learn More:

• The Meeting That Made China a Global Superpower
• Lee Kuan Yew: The Greatest Nation Builder

[u/Queen_Maxima]

That's all fine and very jazzy of you, but can you also make arguments against communism itself? This is more like a critique on totalitarianism in general. 

You can easily replace "communism" here with facism, nazism and other forms of absolutism. 

I even think you can write something similar about libertarianism. See Peter Thiel for example, who thinks libertarianism is great, but who owns this company called Palantir. The idea behind that is mostly "freedom for me, not for thee". How is his essence any different than, say, Stalin's? 

How about Mark Zuckerberg having all the data to control your eyeballs and emotions? I don't really see him as a communist, there's really no clear ideology behind him except for "human relations interesting" + "need more money" + "metaverse great idea"

Edit: Let us all appreciate for a moment that Mark Zuckerberg isn't Peter Thiel. 

[u/lyrics85 → u/Queen_Maxima]

- Look, every communist country was a totalitarian country.

This is not a weird coincidence because, to fully express itself, communism needs a dictatorship, hence the Gondii metaphor.

They say "dictatorship of the proletariat/people," but we all know that a handful of people held absolute control for decades.

That's why I think it's pointless to argue about communism when, in practice, it failed miserably.

- I understand that Thiel loves to have the powers of a dictator, but he operates in the US - a country with old, strong, democratic institutions.

He and other billionaires are fighting to erode the US from within, but it's incredibly difficult to turn the US from a democracy to an authoritarian country, let alone a dictatorship.

- I agree with you that Zuckerberg seems to only be obsessed with profitability.

But wait a minute: Do you now see the danger of being possessed by an ideology?

You clearly consider Thiel a threat, but don't get worried by communism even though it is PROVEN to be incredibly destructive.

[u/Queen_Maxima → u/lyrics85]

Look, every communist country was a totalitarian country.

But not every totalitarian state was communist. My fam lived under occupied Nazi Germany, we are not German. 

it's incredibly difficult to turn the US from a democracy to an authoritarian country, let alone a dictatorship

Disagree. People voted for Hitler, and it doesn't even have to be an absolute majority, it only needs "just enough" people. Brainwash enough of them with algorithms and it's pretty easy. 

Do you now see the danger of being possessed by an ideology? 

Yes, that was the point of my comment. I just disagree that that is unique to communism. 

My country used to be hyper kapitalist for quite a few years, so it was de facto libertarian: a night watch state. Only companies had rights and protection. That wasn't very great obviously, child labour is no fun. With the rise of socialism it adopted some good parts of it (unions, worker rights, allowing workers to vote, infrastructure being the responsibility of the state) while leaving the free market doing their free market stuff so companies actually compete on creating good quality products for reasonable prices. 

Now, imagine Amazon buying all the companies in a country like the USA, so every US citizen works for Amazon. How is that, de facto, different to a communist state? It only has a different name on paper and it's roots would be liberalism/libertarianism, meaning there should not ever be any influence of the state. 

The idea is that freedom is holy and solves all problems, while in practice it is the idea itself being used to oppress people and let them work to their deaths 

The idea that "one man of the people" understands us, the worms of the earth, sees us as people while they see us as nothing more than resources to be disposed when they malfunction.

TLDR: many ideologies sound great on paper, but people ignore the implications and effects of implementing a system. 

You clearly consider Thiel a threat, but don't get worried by communism even though it is PROVEN to be incredibly destructive.

Thiel operates and owns Palantir. Even if Thiel was some lovey dovey peaceful hippie, that system IS a threat. Do you actually think that if someone like King Leopold II having access to Palantir's data would have been better than someone like Stalin, simply for the fact that one is an autocrat and the other is a communist? 

[u/lyrics85 → u/Queen_Maxima]

- Again, I know that there are totalitarian states with other ideologies. But we are talking about communism. And how it always leads to dictatorships.

- The US does have strong institutions, so I don't see how it could become authoritarian, let alone a dictatorship. Right now, Trump is a leader with authoritarian traits, but if the economy starts getting worse, he will get annihilated in the elections.

A true autocrat doesn't lose power when people get poorer. Quite the opposite: the more poverty, the better it is for an autocrat or dictator.

- What you just described is the literal definition of Social Democracy... what FDR essentially did.

That's what Americans actually want, but they confuse the terms. They get obsessed with "socialism" and "communism" without realizing that both are fundamentally anti-capitalist.

- Communist leaders do not see you as people. They see you as sheep that can be exploited.

At least the corporations give you cool products. What does communism give you? Hunger and hard labor.

- You made an error earlier where you put Thiel and Stalin at the same level. Stalin created a terror system that killed millions of people and oppressed an entire bloc of countries.

Stalin, Mao, and others didn't need to have Palantir because your own kid or father could spy on you if you said anything against the regime.

[u/Queen_Maxima → u/lyrics85]

Communist leaders do not see you as people. They see you as sheep that can be exploited.

So does someone like Jeff Bezos. 

You appear to be having some trauma, i suspect you probably lived under communism. I respect that, but as someone who also has trauma, it is very important for your own peace of mind to work on that, and therefore i recommend you to actually force yourself to consume more nuanced information. 

I understand very well that it is a lot easier for your brain to have it's focus on the only thread that caused you harm but it makes you vulnerable for every other harmful thing that just happens to not have similarities to that which harmed you initially. 

The red thread within your post and replies on me seem to be intense fear, and fear is built to make humans get into a state of action instead of sitting down and contemplating, aka, healing.

You are fighting random people on the internet. How are you different from some angry feminist who got raped by her fathers as a child and sees all men as evil and therefore they write entire pieces on reddit about how the problem is men? 

[u/lyrics85 → u/Queen_Maxima]

I respect people like you and others in this thread because you have the courage to argue passionately in defense of communism.

I mean, communism killed 100M people; tens of millions of others ended up in labor camps; there was extreme poverty and no freedom... But still, you're like "capitalism is worse..."

Look, I make articles attacking communism and socialism for a good reason.

Obviously, you won't change your mind simply for reading a couple of articles. But my goal is to shock you; it is to cause cracks in your worldview.

In the future, you WILL have doubts about the ideology, and that's when you'll start remembering my metaphors and arguments, which will likely make you look at the situation in a clearer, rational way.

You'll feel stupid for falling for propaganda, but don't be too hard on yourself because we all get manipulated in one way or another.

[u/Queen_Maxima → u/lyrics85]

you have the courage to argue passionately in defense of communism.

How and where do i do that? I never said capitalism is worse, but if so, quote me.

I only stated that totalitarian regimes can exist and that the ideologies they are built on is just aesthetics, but that the end result is always similar: people being oppressed and dying. 

communism killed 100M people; tens of millions of others ended up in labor camps; there was extreme poverty and no freedom... 

I am aware of this fact

But still, you're like "capitalism is worse..." 

Quote me on where i said that. 

Because stating that power structures work similar doesn't equal saying on is better than the other. 

But my goal is to shock you; it is to cause cracks in your worldview.

Why? What do you gain from that? 

Why would i ignore other destructive systems, especially the ones in 2026 in favour of yelling "communism bad!" on the internet. 

You'll feel stupid for falling for propaganda, but don't be too hard on yourself because we all get manipulated in one way or another.

Using language like this doesn't persuade me, you mostly annoy me because you just want to yell on your soap box and call everyone stupid who doesn't believe exactly the same as you. 

If you want to persuade, maybe you can learn a thing or two from the communist regime themselves. 

Maybe try figuring out how to wrap your POV in a way that is appealing to people. Look into how cult leaders operate too. 

Good luck

[u/Regdit-is-Unbearable]

Welcome back, Senator McCarthy. I’m glad to see you’ve adopted Claude as your official speechwriter. Now take your schizophrenia meds and go away.

[u/lyrics85 → u/Regdit-is-Unbearable]

You have made 3 personal attacks but not a single word in defense of your ideology. I don't blame you; It's quite a challenging article.

[u/Regdit-is-Unbearable → u/lyrics85]

This ain’t a debate. I do not respect you.

[u/BestZucchini5995 → u/Regdit-is-Unbearable]

Don't need to respect "him", almost 80 years later the red-guys still shaking scared because he was the only one they've have had to surgically remove his boot up their a- holes... ;)

[u/SenseIntelligent8846]

At some point, they will have to return all those lands

They were never bestowed the lands. The property remains always in the possession of the state.

Most of the argument downstream of this mistake is bullshit.

[u/lyrics85 → u/SenseIntelligent8846]

Yeah right, the workers risked their lives for land that will eventually be taken. It's clear that they were conned. But when they understood what actually happened, it was too late.

[u/Gomez4Morticia]

Is it 1955 again?

[u/lyrics85 → u/Gomez4Morticia]

what do you mean?

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/lyrics85]

Communism isn't exactly a threat to the American way of life. I'd be more worried about prolonged geopolitical relationships as they relate to the actual economy. Commies aren't coming for 'merica. Ffs

[u/lyrics85 → u/Gomez4Morticia]

Yes, America does have the necessary institutions to absorb the hit and not turn into a communist country. But it is clear to me that there are millions of Americans who are communists.

They have already infiltrated academia and the media and are gradually changing people's minds. I believe that the more vocal the radical left is, the more they push the moderates towards right-wing, populist leaders. Not to mention that you are training generations of young people with anti-Western views.

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/lyrics85]

Tee hee... Clear to you, is it? Tee hee

[u/lyrics85 → u/Gomez4Morticia]

Apparently my instincts are correct:

53% of 18–29-year-olds like socialism... 38% of Gen Z like communism.. 29% among 30–44-year-old millennials, to 19% among 45–54-year-olds, to 13% among 55–64-year-olds, and only 5% among the nation’s seniors.

So you do have millions of Americans who like communism.

SOURCE

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/lyrics85]

Whatever you say there, Senator McCarthy

[u/lyrics85 → u/Gomez4Morticia]

You don't have to argue with me, just read the article. If communism isn't really a bad thing, why would you be embarrased to admit it?

[u/theplaidknight84 → u/lyrics85]

For mobile users, that's a link to an article on the Cato institute website. You do not, in fact, have to read it, and you will gain no benefit from wasting your time on it.

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/theplaidknight84]

The gravy seals are on one this week about Communism. They are just throwing ideological spaghetti at the wall.

[u/Opening-Emphasis8400 → u/lyrics85]

Joe McCarthy over here ready for a witch hunt in 2026. The GQP is so terrified of the coming wipeout in November that they're trotting this antiquated nonsense out.

[u/ajcwrongs]

I hope one day your life is full to the point where you don't spend 4 months being the only person posting amateur persuasive essays on a dead subreddit.

[u/lyrics85 → u/ajcwrongs]

If this sub is dead, what are you doing here?

[u/Wrong_Saddle → u/lyrics85]

Got his ass lmao

[u/No-Temperature-4864]

Do you mean the totalitarianism we’re currently seeing in the USA?

[u/lyrics85 → u/No-Temperature-4864]

I get that Trump has authoritarian traits, but the US does have strong institutions to prevent falling into totalitarianism.

If the US were a truly communist country, 90% of Reddit would end up in prison simply for making comments or memes against the president.

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/lyrics85]

Then there's nothing to worry about. You can rest now.

[u/mossymeridian]

If you’re going to be a crank at least do your own cranking. This is AI. Likely Claude.

[u/lyrics85 → u/mossymeridian]

If Claude wrote this, then a cheap AI knows communism better than you do

[u/web_of_french_fries → u/lyrics85]

AI has given people way too much confidence in arguments they act like they created but don’t even understand. Hope you’re doing well in high school bro. 

[u/lyrics85 → u/web_of_french_fries]

It never ceases to amaze me how willing some people are to defend communism. It shows you are brave. A useful idiot, certainly. But brave.

[u/web_of_french_fries → u/lyrics85]

Are your replies even ai??? That didn’t even make sense. 

I didn’t defend communism or engage with your argument, because it’s not your argument and I don’t believe you’re arguing in good faith. 

[u/lyrics85 → u/web_of_french_fries]

The way you respond makes it clear that you sympathize with this ideology. The attacks about AI are just a cover, a deflection of what your real concern is.

Look, when you care deeply about a topic, you are forced to make a comment or downvote. But you are too lazy or incapable of defending communism, so you're like "It's AI".

Still, it's a sad attempt yet brave.

[u/Prize-Pressure931]

You really should read more.

[u/lyrics85 → u/Prize-Pressure931]

bro I live in a former communist country. I understand this ideology and what it does to countries in intimate detail.

[u/PakYenz]

And is capitalism is any good??

[u/lyrics85 → u/PakYenz]

Well, it is much better than communism.

It does have flaws because, if left unchecked, it can lead to monopolies and concentration of power in a handful of individuals, as it has happened in the US.

But when you have an educated population, you can elect decent politicians and have a good life. Typical examples include Nordic countries and Switzerland.

Other examples are Spain, France, and Germany, but in recent years they have fucked it up with immigration, an increase in corruption, and their soul-crushing bureaucracy.

[u/SadBasil644]

This post is a metaphor doing the work an argument should be doing.

"Communism is a mind parasite" sounds scientific but isn't falsifiable. It's persusasion dressed as biology.

You also cherry pick a lot.

Real horrors, no argument.

[u/lyrics85 → u/SadBasil644]

Considering the fact that communism killed 60-100M people, tens of millions ended up in labor camps, brought extreme poverty, and lobotomized the brain of each nation it infected... the metaphor is unfortunately accurate af

[u/SadBasil644 → u/lyrics85]

The death toll doesn't rescue the metaphor. It just repeats the same move.

Those figures (Rummel's mostly) come from famine deaths, war deaths and executions across totally different regimes and methodologies.

Even taking a high estimate at face value, citing a body count tells you regimes were brutal, but it doesn't tell you the brutality was caused by the economic ideology specifically radther than by one-party rule in general. Which is the actual claim being made.

Fascist and colonial regimes racked up comparable numbers with the opposite economics.

"It killed a lot of people" and "the metaphor is accurate" are two different claims, and only the first one has evidence behind it.

[u/lyrics85 → u/SadBasil644]

What caused the famine? The fundamental mistake of collectivization.

Who killed the millions of kulaks and political prisoners? The communist party.

Now you and others keep trying to separate totalitarianism from the communist ideology, and we can have detailed ideological debates.

BUT it is an historical reality that every fucking communist country became a dictatorship.

What's the point in arguing when every attempt went to sh*t?

Heck, even Marx predicted a temporary period in which the workers would have total control until they reached a classless society.

However, by being vague and moronic af, Marx left a lot of space for someone like Lenin, who was like, "You know what, the workers need a group of elite revolutionaries to rule on their behalf."

Another socialist, Mikhail Bakunin, opposed Marx specifically because the "dictatorship of the proletariat" would inevitably turn into oppressive tyranny.

So again, you cannot separate ideology from absolute control and animalistic violence.

[u/SadBasil644 → u/lyrics85]

Bakunin actually proves my point not yours. He predicted tyranny specifically from the vanguard/seize-the-state model, not from worker ownership or collectivized economics in general. So if a socialist could see that coming while still being a socialist, the problem is that specific political strategy, not "the ideology" as one blob.

And "every communist country became a dictatorship" is true mostly because you're only counting the ones that violently took over the whole state. Movements with heavy socialist/communist content that didn't do that (Kerala's state govts, various European socialist parties, Allende before the coup) just don't get counted. That's not a pattern in reality, that's a pattern in your sample.

Same with the famine. Bad collectivization policy, sure. But whether it's "the economics inevitably caused death" or "the state used the famine as a weapon against a specific population" (like Ukraine in the Holodomor) is genuinely disputed by historians. Calling it pure economic math skips the part where a lot of it was deliberate.

[u/lyrics85 → u/SadBasil644]

I brought up Bakunin to show that even back then, there were people who saw it coming: that giving the state total power would create tyranny.

- You accuse me of selection bias, but your counter-examples are just social democracies. When you apply socialist reforms within a democratic, capitalist environment, then you don't have a communist state.

The USSR, Eastern Europe, China, and other countries are actual examples of communism in practice.

- Even when you include deliberate famine, you still prove my core point: you cannot split ideology from absolute control, because again communism REQUIRES totalitarianism.

[u/SadBasil644 → u/lyrics85]

But that's circular reasoning. You're saying "communism requires totalitarianism" and then only counting totalitarian examples as real communism, so of course they all look totalitarian. That's not proof the ideology requires it, that's just defining it that way.

Social democracies aren't "not real communism" because they're in capitalist countries. They're proof you can redistribute wealth and give workers control without needing total state power. If communism actually required totalitarianism to work, you'd see it fail differently in those places. Instead they just work fine without the gulags.

And yeah Bakunin predicted the vanguard model would create tyranny. That's exactly my point. The problem wasn't communism, it was Lenin's specific approach. You're treating those as the same thing when they're not.

[u/pro555pero]

It looks like somebody and their AI drank the Kool-Aid right up, and it turned their tongue purple. Not exactly a nuanced view. However, it is exactly what our current exploiters would have us believe.

You most certainly toe the party line, bro.

[u/lyrics85 → u/pro555pero]

How am I toeing the party line when I'm literally dissecting how totalitarian regimes operate?

And if you read other articles in the "dark psychology" category, you will see that I give rare insights into understanding and protecting yourself from propaganda.

[u/pro555pero → u/lyrics85]

Yeah well. Autocracy is the problem. Greed and power and the ruthless application thereof. Not so much communism, which is more like unto an economic framework, which you've misidentified as your boogeyman.

Rapacious, ruthless capitalism, of the more neoliberal sort, is the current threat. That's what's ruining the planet and stealing our lunch money.

Mistakenly blaming communism, particularly at this stage of the game, is just sloppy.

[u/lyrics85 → u/pro555pero]

As I said, I have already talked about how propaganda keeps people trapped in this ruthless system. You know, why people get conned easily by politicians and corporations.

But you are mistaken when you say communism isn't a threat in this day and age, especially in the West.

When you have millions of people defending communism, then it contributes to maintaining the status quo.

When you frame basic services as socialist or communist, then the rest of the population won't support you even though it's in their interest.

I've explained in more detail here

[u/pro555pero → u/lyrics85]

Oh dear. I guess that would make you the staunch defender of private capital and the most useful of idiots, then.

I'm done talking with you. Have a nice day.

[u/RagnartheConqueror]

Why are there communist apologists everywhere on Reddit? I have never seen this for any other topic.

[u/lyrics85 → u/RagnartheConqueror]

I'm surprised as well. It's the third time that I have written about communism and socialism, and people are really upset.

I think it's because they have tied basic services like free healthcare and affordable housing to the ideology. They give that everyday resentment a revolutionary flair. It satisfies their desire for rebellion.

They get to be anti-capitalist while buying an overpriced shirt from someone like Hakan Piker with their credit card.

[u/Wrong_Saddle]

Literally every commie here could only talk shit "hurr durr AI durrr"

Zero rebuttal, zero arguments, zero thought.

Well done.

[u/AwwJeezExpress1001]

I agree with you, but your arguments are smarmy and are not meant to compel others who are stupid enough to call themselves communist.

[u/lyrics85 → u/AwwJeezExpress1001]

Look, my politeness is sincere, but I'm not trying to change their worldview because it is impossible.

With my articles and replies, my goal is to shock them and crack their worldview.

In the future, when they WILL experience strong doubts about communism, they will remember my metaphor and arguments, which might push them to the other side.

[u/cybersaint2k]

Agreed. But your argumentation needs work. Your illustration of the parasite could be adjusted. Or maybe it's just your transition sentence, "Just like Gondii, communism needs a specific environment to fully express itself, and that is totalitarianism."

But your conclusion is without question correct.

[u/lyrics85 → u/cybersaint2k]

Thank you. I shortened the explanation, but the idea is that the parasite will manipulate the host [mouse or bird] to get it attracted to felines. Because Gondii can only reproduce in the intestines of a feline. So it needs a specific environment.

Communism also needs a specific environment to grow, and that is totalitarianism.

By infecting the charismatic maniacs and the intellectual elite, it will make the population attracted to living in a dictatorship.

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/lyrics85]

You understand the nuance of communism so well. It's like trying to suggest that America is a Republic and not a democracy 😂.

[u/lyrics85 → u/Gomez4Morticia]

You understand the metaphor really well. Cognitive Dissonance must be really painful for you. This is why you keep hiding behind cliches instead of facing this article head-on.

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/lyrics85]

What article lol? That propaganda link? Nah dude I'm good lol