many so called leftists in the west have nothing to do with communism, as they act often and behave irrationally, they are getting abused by hostile foreign forces.
a communists knows about the difficulties life brings to maintain an economy and infrastructure and keep people that do that motivated, lefties in the west are just highly populistic.
as soon as a communist republic banking cartel gets announced created western lefties get massively punished, turn nazi, parasite or islamist, while the rightwinger that they have constantly fallen into their backs will get their revenge, and take the revenge by running the communist dream they dreamed about
communism is openminded but comes with massive flaws, economic sabotage and other difficulties.
Yes its always the
imperialist foreign forces. Communists can never do wrong, ever. Its always the external enemy and sometimes the internal enemy. Their ideas cannot be wrong, because they are
perfect, and the fault always lies elsewhere, its never theirs.
Quite open until someone tells them they did wrong, then clearly that someone needs re-education...