I'm 56, and I've been confused about the modern accusations of communism because when communism was the big bad in my youth, I figured it was the authoritarianism and lack of freedom that was bad.

As it turns out, I was wrong. What was bad was apparently having the wrong group of people pillaging the country. If they had billionaires stealing everything instead of party elites, it would have been fine.

So communism was bad because western billionaires couldn't profit from it.