<p>@Tom</p>
<p>Possibly a bit off topic but you reminded me of something else my professor mentioned in that class, about there being 3 steps of Communism. Educating the public, revolting and taking total control of the government, then reforming it from the top down and relinquishing power. The argument was that all of the dictatorships we’ve identified as “communist” only stopped at step 2, but never stepped down like they were supposed to. I might be misremembering the exact phrasing of the steps but the idea was to take power, reform the system, then step down, and the problem is the leaders get drunk with power and don’t step down. Essentially, the argument was their communism isn’t even actual communism because they never performed step 3.</p>