a lot of regimes call(ed) themselves communist while being something very different. I’m not a fan of the ideology, not in the least because it always seems to fail in spectacularly ugly ways, such as Stalinism, Maoism, or that tragicomic Juche shit in North Korea. Having said that, I don’t believe that I’ve ever met an actual Communist, so I couldn’t say. If I did, I’d mostly point out the history of their ideology in practice, and be massively skeptical of either their motives, or intellect.
> Having said that, I don’t believe that I’ve ever met an actual Communist, so I couldn’t say.
Goalpost moving. What does meeting them have to do with it? I strongly doubt you've ever met any actual Nazis, either, since there haven't been any of those for about seventy years.
Dude, there are Marxists everywhere, primarily because it's somehow still socially acceptable to be a Communist -- which is the issue I'm trying get you to address.
> I’m not a fan of the ideology, not in the least because it always seems to fail in spectacularly ugly ways, such as Stalinism, Maoism, or that tragicomic Juche shit in North Korea
But not enough of a non-fan that you'd advocate that Marxist material be banned from, say, YouTube?
Communists have murdered far more people than the Nazis ever did.
Also, communists still control entire countries, with standing armies and nuclear weapons.
By contrast, the "Nazis" of today are mostly small groups of rednecks who can barely make the payments on their mobile homes.
Why is one worse/more of a danger than the other, to the extent that one group should have its material banned, but the other not?
What about Communists?