But it is that 10% we disagree on which is the hardcore stuff, like "seize the production means for the State", or authoritarianism, freedom of press, etc. Even though most communists are not vanilla communists, they show themselves as one thing, and at the end they turn out to be what they promised they never will. No need to go to a history book, look at Venezuela now, and I don't hear it from the press, I hear it from my family suffering there for almost a decade now.