I have to challenge that statement, esp. as regards the word "aware". If they were "aware" of Communism's body count and how those warm bodies came to turn cold, they might be of another opinion, rather like the Damascene conversion of the Trotskyites to neo-conservatives in the 1950's and 1960's.
There's something about a pickaxe as an argument for policy that tends to make a Buckleyite out of people .....
...”If they were “aware” of Communism’s body count and how those warm bodies came to turn cold, they might be of another opinion,...”
Yes, but look at the statement I was replying to.... there are those who truly believe that if communism is done “right” way, by the “right” person/administration, it can be a good thing.