They try to frame science as a “religion” so that they can argue that their beliefs are just as valid and they can ignore the science.

And then who buys the products 🫠

Fair points, however, there is a big difference between torture, abuse and murder, and limiting those from corrupting the system. Also, people wanting to live under a different economic system are not fascists I agree that fascism must be harshly dealt with, and it is a major failing of Western society, particularly over the past 5-10 years.

Similarly, complete suppression of the ability to spread and discuss ideas will always lead towards a backwards thinking society.

I do think that with the passage of generations and improvements of education people can revert back to being social creatures rather than individual. Greed is largely taught rather than innate.

You can be communist without being imperialist (in the case of the soviets), sending people to gulags, or massacring protesters 🙂

It’s always difficult for people to untangle their own experiences from being universal. It’s a common logical bias for most things, and we are all guilty of it at least occasionally.

“I know better than you because I am __”. It is the classic anecdotes are not evidence.

I personally am economically extremely communist while being very anti-soviet and anti-CCP, because I disagree with their authoritarian methods of enforcing socialism. Having grown up in a former Warsaw pact country I can see a lot of the great things that were outcomes of the communist ideals while simultaneously being surrounded by evidence of the awfulness as well. (And yes, I know “free” countries are also full of authoritarian bullshit and I am against that as well).

I think it’s important to remember that the viewpoints of those who endured or witnessed the outcomes of, for example, soviet, control are recognised and heard. That way we are able to untangle the implicit knots between the bad parts of certain regimes and the actual economic and social principles of different systems. E.g. is capitalism bad because America is an imperialist shitty asshole country which is capitalist? No, it’s bad because its underlying principles are flawed, and they also incentivise America to be a shitty asshole country.

It’s somewhat the same issue as the ad hominem fallacy, but towards a nation as an entity instead of a person.