We’ve had this conversation a million times - the principles espoused by communists have a natural consequence of establishing an authoritarian government because they can only be put into practice through use of force, force which is never relinquished afterwards - that’s the part modern communists don’t understand, and cannot understand. They find the proposed end point to be attractive, so much so that they fail to notice that the proposed path doesn’t lead to said end point, it invariably leads to an authoritarian nightmare. People on opposite ends of the aisle will always have this argument we’re having right now, until the end of time - communism sympathisers will always say that it was never truly tried and communist opponents will always say that it’s a system that failed every single time it attempted. Revolutions create power vacuums, and nature hates a vacuum - that empty space is always, invariably, filled in with the group that just did all of the revolting, and they’re never going to relinquish the power they seized because the supply of people not adequately adherent to the cause is never-ending when the goal posts can be moved as hoc. There is no step three after seizing the power from the state, but people infatuated with the idea of communism will never come to terms with that. If you’re under the impression that Putin was ever splitting a grain of rice to feed his family, you’re living in an alternate reality that’s not worth delving into.