I've had this thought recently that if a communist (specifically an ml) revolution was to happen, why should i as a non-ml communist fight for it if ml countries have a history of elimanating non-mls?

Hi, I’m fairly uneducated on Communism and am interested in many of its tenets. I recently got a sort of primer on it from this book I’m reading. Only it can be a bit vague and is a fair bit outdated.

I would post a picture of it, but idk how. It’s Revolutionary Cuba by Terence Cannon.

Mainly I am curious about how the benefits of Communism are presented in the modern day especially with the arguments from other camps, which Western media is quite inundated with. The book describes a lot of the victories over classism and imperialism as the end all be all, but modern Cuba isn’t politically “free”in a few ways, namely It doesn’t have a fully democratic system where people vote for their leader. In that case, what is the argument for that version of communism?

Sorry if this is incorrect for the subreddit. I mean it as a genuine question from an uninformed standpoint.

I'm gonna talk here about what happens in Europe (since I am an east european) when it comes to public symbols regarding these two regimes/ideologies. And what I noticed is that the West of the Europe is very pro radical left, and they display communist symbols freely everywhere (as they should be since we live in democracies). But as we all know the communist regimes all around the world are guilty for serious crimes against humanity. So why isn't the communist symbol forbidden just as the nazy ones? What do u think, should they be?

Something that puzzles me is that Communism is widely advocated among the Western Left, but every Communist (Socialist) country I can think of supresses the social ideals of these same people.

For instance, concepts like free speech or multi-party elections are seen as "bourgeois" constructs. Individual rights are subordinate to the collective ideal. Freedom of religion and conscience is tightly controlled. The death penalty is practiced, LGBTQ rights are suppressed, mass surveillance is practiced, movement is restricted ... there's a whole litany of rights the Left cherishes that would be quashed under any historical or contemporary Communist regime.

Does the Left simply envision a more perfect Communism that they would succeed in implementing, in spite of such a regime never having taken root before? Why does the Western Left think their Communism will preserve the rights they hold dear when no Communist country ever has?

You perceive social instability, so you call for a protest, and notify the government. The authorities send in a few undercover cop. The press then reports that it was, inevitably, a riot incited by looters. Rinse and repeat