Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?

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Even from people that never lived in a communist state

edit: im 17 and i hate communism

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Marxism lack of global uptake on a map:

States that had communist governments in red, states that the Soviet Union believed at one point to be moving toward socialism in orange and other socialist states in yellow. Not all of the bright red states remained Soviet allies.

These aren't Maxist states. Those that do have Marxist traits are (mostly) Stalin's Maxism-Leninism which obviously has some very different views to Marxism, especially on social matters and rejection of the left.

You're even commecting the Soviets in, so I can only assume you're referring to the Stalinisation and De-Stalinisation periods, which this map seems to be just that.

But the map and commentary is still interesting.

Marxism isn’t a rigid doctrine, it adapts to the material conditions of the world around it, as it was designed to do.

That doesn't mean anything to the point I'm raising. But it is correct and why it has hybridised with other ideologies. It is another part of human nature to pick and choose what suits best. Also why capitalism is as bad as it is.