I would disagree with your interpretation. That said, this isn't the place for discussing it.
ETA: I agree with your point about Jean Gabin.
ETA: I agree with your point about Jean Gabin.
That Communism in the form idealized by Marx and Engels was never really tried is pretty obvious to anyone who has read a bit of Marx. What we've had are variations on Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism and minor isms.
But that was not my point. My point was that there are elements in theoretical communism that are inherently "bad" to people with a different set of values.
So to claim that communism is not bad per se you have to share those values.
If you don't identify with "the proletariat" you're basically facing a "convert or die" ideology that is, for anyone in that position, an existential threat and therefore bad.
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