Because you all need to learn that being “communist” doesn’t mean you have to defend everything ever perpetrated under that name, and you don’t need to support every dictator and despot that claims they have a communist party (usually only to hoard wealth and influence among the elite).

Some people who call themselves what you call yourself are going to be pieces of shit. Some people who say they’re “communists” don’t operate a communist system, they are just power hungry motherfuckers that found a way to have people like those in this community push propaganda for free.

Every person under every political label needs to understand this. You can support an idea without defending and lying about every single thing that has ever been done by people who also claim allegiance to that word. It’s a word. And people are complicated. A lot of “communists” are…just horrible people. And have been throughout communist history. A lot of them never wanted anything to do with communism past the part part where the central party has control over everything “for the good of the people.” Has anyone ever really made it past that part, who then went on to give up all that power?

That whole “power corrupts” saying is common for a reason. It has quite a heaping spoonful of truth to it.