Most people miss this underlying aspect of communism, socialism or even fascism. This “ism” is really not all that important, what is important is they are all have been just different forms of totalitarianism.

At its heart, the genius of Karl Marx was only that he codified the marketing plan for despotism.

First appeal to people’s   inborn sense of good, fairness and kindness, or nationalism/patriotism. Then illuminate the injustices and unfairness in the world. Then suggest that the unfairness and inequality can be corrected if only enough people get on board. At the sametime, appeal to the lazy, the power-hungry and the just plain naive and lost. The lazy would love a free ride. The power-hungry see the game and are ready to jump on board as they see there are the rulers and the ruled. They want to be a ruler. The naive and lost are just looking for someone to tell them what to do.

Marx just articulated the marketing strategy (and the tactics are all laid out in the Communist manifesto). You can call it whatever you want, communism,  socialism, wokeness, save the environment, any form of do-gooder-ism but the blueprint stays the same. Most people want to be good, truly.

But many people want to appear to be good to appeal to the people who actually want to be good. But true “goodness” requires selflessness, which itself also requires bravery as well as intelligence. Yes, bravery and intelligence are required. Unfortunately, while many people have the intelligence, they don’t have the willingness to do the research. To think it through, or discover that it has been tried before. Many times.

Read ‘the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ‘.

Read the Quran.

Explore ‘The Communist Manifesto.’

Dig a bit deeper. You probably have the intelligence, but do you have the courage to discover the truth about what is actually going on?

Currently, communism is competing with Islamism for world domination. Trying to wrestle it away  from “capitalism” or “democracy” or whatever you want to call the western world view. But both communism and Islamism are just different forms of totalitarianism.

However, both seem to intriguingly promote the notion of “good.”  Either good as the word of God or good as equity, diversity and inclusion. But those supposed objectives are really not the objectives. The actual objective is subjugation of the population and complete control by some ruling class or theocracy. To get a real look at Islam, check this link.

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com