Communism is bad. Lenin was a murderer and Stalin was worse.

DM me and I’ll give you my phone number.

And this my friend is exactly why communism is a dead philosophy. This right here above any kind of technical details or doctrinal differences or ideological issues… It’s this right here that you just described which is why communism will never succeed. Because communist themselves, in 2024 are nuts. I came to the same conclusion you did which is why I stopped calling myself one despite sympathizing and being a fellow traveler.

As a former extremist myself, you’re absolutely right. It’s not even really about changing the world or actual meaningful activism which is why these extremists are also totally useless in any movement they get involved. All they are is cancer. They just serve to alienate hard-working regular people who care about whatever cause it is.

That’s because communists are literally nuts and they’re not worth listening to in the modern day. Marxism has some valuable things to say. Communism does not.

Look, despite the appealing nature of some of the things Communists talk about they’re the last people that should be looked to to provide those things.

They haven’t even tried to acknowledge the horrors of communist regimes that have existed. There’s not even like an attempt to take responsibility and intellectualize it. It’s all just hand waved away as not real communism or blah blah blah or it didn’t happen or it was justified in truly horrifying cases. What kind of movement is going to be successful that can’t even acknowledge its mistakes? Acknowledging our mistakes is how we grow as individuals and it’s required to keep movements accountable and on the right track.

You cannot have a movement full of people who refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the past… in charge. Best case scenario it doesn’t work which is what you see in communist circles today: Endless in-fighting, superiority complexes and toxic personalities.

Worst case scenario we have another genocide.

Communism is a joke philosophy and it’s not something that should be taken seriously by anybody. It’s one thing if it’s an entry point into the world of Marxism where there are legitimate things to be accomplished and to think about. But if you try and apply a communist philosophy or worse a Marxist leninist philosophy towards life and politics you’re not on the right track in the slightest.

It’s a doomed philosophy and a failed approach. Furthermore communism is not even necessary for the workers to seize the means of production. It’s just a particularly violent direct way that has been outmoded and is out of date.

You’ve nailed it. I couldn’t have said it better.

Communists are inherently radical/extremist and radicals/extremists don’t care about other opinions and will actively suppress them.

That’s a tiny minority of Christians whereas it’s not a tiny minority of communist and tankies.

Furthermore it’s an aberration when it comes to how people believe Christianity should be practiced that it involves such violence towards homosexuals, whereas it’s the norm among communists.

There’s nothing to respect about authoritarian communism. It’s an ideology that advocates literally shooting people for having dissenting opinions. For all the good things in the ideology (and there are many) that completely negates them. It turns it into a parody ideology, a clown ideology that can’t ever actually bring the good stuff inside the box to fruition. It’s a poison pill.

It’s a box full of your favorite snacks but when you open the lid there’s nerve gas on the latch. Can’t eat the snacks if you’re dead.

Which was exactly the problem with Reddit. Like exactly to a t.

I’m a Christian socialist and you’ll never find me locking arms with a tanky Communist. They’re so disrespectful of other people’s views they want to shoot people for having them.

Violence is a sin.

Communists are by default and especially the tanky variety, not respectful of people having different views. That’s why people don’t like them.