Communism=poverty. Get rid of the Communists and prosper. Why do so many people have trouble with that concept???
Because too many love the feel-good politics of Communism.
Robin hood was also very popular. Rob the rich and give money to the poor. Government guarantees you a job and food. Many people like guaranteed safety net. They do not care to work hard or feel they have no brains to learn a difficult skill. Communism is easy to sell to the masses.
The reason it always fails to create prosperity is it removes incentive to work hard and increase productivity. No use to innovate because there is no reward to reap.
“Get rid of the Communists and prosper. Why do so many people have trouble with that concept???”
From de Tocqueville...on equality.
“But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”
In other words, envy is the problem.
People decry human greed. But with just a bit of taming, greed can be corralled into “self-interest” resulting in capitalism. Envy on the other hand feeds on itself and inexorably leads to socialism and communism.
Because it's not gone, just renamed and given a new face. Trading one totalitarian regime for another is not necessarily an improvement. And Communism that embraces some capitalist traits doesn't magically cease to be Communist. Just look at China.