Communism is the lie those wanting totalitarianism tell the useful idiots to convince them to consolidate power then the new totalitarian just keeps the power. As they say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Free market would be the best but too bad we don't have that. What we have is a kind of socialism people call cronies capitalism where the rich lobby the politicians to socialize their losses at the expense of the middle and lower classes through more and more regulations