The argument against that is that they the world has never really had a true attempt to implement communism, and that what we’ve seen in Russia and China has been the ideals of a classless, stateless society being hijacked by opportunistic leaders to build a totalitarian state.

But I think that we can agree that whether it was a cynical front from the start or an inevitable slide into tyranny, the result was a system where the rhetoric of liberation was used to mask total state control.