Every single time it has been implemented it has been a success; drastically improving the conditions of the vast majority of the lives of the people in those countries, establishing the world’s most proven successful education system, offering the only avenue for nations to escape imperialism, overthrow occupation, and develop up and out of poverty from under conditions of exploitation, eliminating unemployment, progressing science and culture more than ever before in their nation’s timeline of existence, and providing the most value-efficient and successful healthcare systems the world has ever seen.
Continuing to this day, Marxist-Leninist governments remain, in nearly every case, the absolute best government in their respective nation’s entire histories — especially for the poor and minorities — and are deeply missed by the majority of people that lived under communism (and no longer do), who also overwhelmingly regret it’s end. Communists saved the world from Hitler and fascism, took humans to space; they united and advanced China from a backwards, subservient nation to the position of the next world superpower. Communism made Cuba an international leader in medicine, who recently saved the much richer Italy during COVID-19, developed the DPRK into a cutting edge nuclear power, and liberated more of the planet from the most powerful empires in the world — more often and more successfully — than any other ideology or system, ever before and ever since.
Capitalism has violently forced its way into nearly every facet of every corner of the world, and socialist states are the only projects that have ever threatened to resist, repel, and overturn that domination, and it is only Marxist-Leninist projects that have ever neared the completion of that objective, thus far, in history. Communism works, and it works so effectively, all the time, so much so that the only way to get it to stop working is to have the most powerful empires in existence intervene in opposition to it, and even they can only boast mixed success. Communism has always worked, it will always work, and it continues to work right now, even as you continue to deny it.
That part is definitely unlike Trump, yep.
Also, there's more western nations than the usa. There's a rather diverse set of opinions out there with their respective criticisms or lack thereof
Well yes, I'm generalizing somewhat. But anti-communist sentiment as a whole has a lot of similar themes that repeat; owed in part to the fact that violently anti-communist sentiment was one of the US's major exports in post WWII.
I often reference the US because it is what I have the most familiarity with, and also sometimes because its extensive power and influence in post WII is relevant to this kind of thing - not to be confused with the western chauvinist belief that it is the center of the universe and everything else must revolve around it.
To a lot of people in the western world that haven't considered the us a great place. Some have been calling is a near third world country for over a decade now. And unfortunately it is becoming less and less of a joke
Yeah, the US is in a pretty shitty state. Exporting industry to other countries, depending heavily on exploitation of other countries, depending heavily on prison labor and cheap migrant labor, violently crushing communist movements and just basic labor movements at every opportunity, having no real national identity beyond being settlers who genocided the natives - all of that and more has its consequences.