Do another 40 million people need to die for liberals to learn that communism doesn't work? When does it cease to be slow wittedness and start being pure evil?

I'm sorry to post twice, and so close together, but something occurred to me and I thought I'd note it. Once again, I liked the apparent humor of the article, but I want to take issuer with this quote:

You think Stalin was a Marxist.

---Champas Socialist

I love how the Lefties and Far Lefties are seemingly without a clue as to why Communism's cradle collapsed like the house of cards it was, in the face of real, pro-active, honest Capitalist opposition.

Left with a vacuum and no way to explain the absolute failure of their faith, they, for some time, had nothing really to say. No way to return the jabs and prods of their opponents.
So, in the past 15 years, they eventually changed tack. The rhetoric changed completely.
Nowadays, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro.....the very same people the Left held on giant, ornate golden pedestals all through the 20th century, from the 20s and 30s on up to the fall of the USSR in '91 (thank you Ronald Reagan---oh, and more on that in a second), were suddenly no longer Socialists OR Communists.
At least, not REAL Socialists or Communists.
No, they were just pretenders, see, aaaaannnd.....since they weren't true to the faaaaaaiiiiith.....weeeeeelllll.....(toss in an "I dunno" shrug, shake the head sadly )things just didn't work out as they should.

BUT!

If they haaaaa-aaaad.........Yeah. Okay.

They sure seemed like Communists.....they took money from people who earned it and gave it to people who didn't.
Mainly themselves, yes (Castro's personal fortune is estimated at somewhere around half a billion dollars American, and that, in one of the most egregiously poverty-stricken Third World countires---Communism did wonders there!), but the principle remains the same. Along the way, they (and just about anyone else who ever took power as a Commie or Socie) also became murderous tyrants and homicidal dictators. Almost every one of them. And Communism's appeal and inner workings had nothing to do with it.

And they also like to say that Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with the collapse of Soviet Communism. It was all due to the bungling/evil/pathetic machinations of Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeah. Okay.
All those missles Reagan ordered up and had placed in Europe (bankrupting the Soviet economy because it couldn't take the strain of a serious military competition while supporting every other Commie state on the continent at the same time) had absolutely nothing to do with it. That's the new party line.

Yeah, okay.