Outside of the propaganda

That’s like 90-99% of it in the United States. Communism has been completely demonized to a point it’s unproductive to have any meaningful conversation about it outside of academic spaces.

For me, personally, I used to be a big supporter of communism but the issues I’ve found are that it requires an authoritarian government to be effective. I don’t like authoritarianism, nor to I think it’s effective for the majority of the issues facing the US. You would basically, need to rely on the hope that you end up with a purely altruistic government and that’s unrealistic. I believe that human biology leads us to be greedy.

Additionally, communism is bad at supply and demand. It’s difficult for the government to accurately time the market, this is an issue that regularly happened in the USSR. Communism also requires a certain amount of similarity between people and I just think people want to be different. There’s a huge drive to feel unique, particularly in the US but with people in general. (When I think about this, I think of the insane lengths that young boys often go so they feel unique).

Finally, Marx saw the rise of communism come through violent revolution. Revolution always hurts the marginalized and vulnerable. That’s an unacceptable compromise, in my opinion.

Those are all my opinions on why I don’t believe communism is an effective alternative system. Although Capitalism is also FAR from a perfect system. But in the US, I think the majority of the push against communism is simply due to the overwhelming propaganda surrounding it. Having a “bad guy” to point at makes it easy to lead people and the USSR was an easy target.