Notice we all agree democrats are communist.
But none of them would come out in public and proclaim “I’m communist.” In fact, as we can see in the case of Axelrod, they do whatever they can to cover it up.
It’s clear to me that in the long run the defining characteristic of communism is not whether it defeats western free markets, or even whether it can “work” once established.
The defining nature of communism is that the only way to save it from defeat by the will of the people is to conceal it in total darkness.
I believe the kind of mind communism appeals to is not quite sharp enough to see this.
The real problem is that the younger generations don’t even know what a communist is, much less why communism is bad.
Occasionally they do slip up, and reveal enough information about themselves, their backgrounds, and their groups and friends to enable us to pin them down.
It was Axelrod himself who revealed in his recent biography about his father's voter registration as Communist, which sparked researchers to document that fact.
He's far from the only Red Diaper Baby who became a powerful government official in the Obama Administration. American communists and other leftist radicals have a strong tendency toward inbreeding.