Here is Marx fir you,
“there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”
Almost, like they are separate.
Now they are engaging in critical studies and struggle sessions along race and gender lines as opposed to class lines. If it continues it will lead to more death and destruction. But will never lead to a communist utopia.
It wasn't just a failure, it was ideologicaly and deliberately genocidal and resulted in widespread cannibalism.
Same in China.
In Campodia they marched them into the jungle and murdered all the educated to create year zero.
Vietnam and Cuba seem to be an exception but lots of secret police.
That was a good interview Daniel. I had basically come to the exact same conclusions as this man. Especially that people were supplanting traditional religious beliefs with an antihumanistic environmentalism.