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It seems to be that being a communist in 2021 is far different from being one in 1950. For one thing, even the Chinese and Russian governments (the major purveyors of old-style communisms) have pretty much seen the failures of Communism and moved off it to capitalist dictatorships.

No one takes communism seriously except maybe North Korea.

So why is there so much opprobrium about communism today? Or is this just another right wing social wave-the-flag issue that is really meaningless?