subdued the countryside

in order to stop it would require a civil war to kill the government

that didn't happen

So which one(s) didn't? Where did people fight back and win?

kulaks were purged

Chechnya?

dont know enough about that as it is more recent and less communist

Ok, so what's a good example?

take south american states or spain

big spanish civil war

take germany also

prevent communist takeover by fighting them off while you still have time

history calls you the bad guy

Does history think ill of Nazis because they fought Communists, or because they tried to create a European empire under German rule?

yes

Because the latter was a dick move.

the answer is yes

when you ask an or question and either is true, the answer is yes

So, I'll ask again, what is this mysterious power that allows Communism to manage to always successfully frame its opponents as evil?

How does that work?

I'd guess that there is a population of people that want communism to win large enough that any story is good enough

But why does that become the Narrative?

because there are so many communists?

Why can't the other side do the same thing? Are there simply more of them?

this gets into the study of late stage civilizations

the internal and external proletariat

Hmm. That would actually make sense with some of the more theoretical work I've been doing

Well, 'work'

More like hypothesizing

late stage civilizations cant convince more people to be in favor than there are opposed

those in opposition seek to end the civilization

thats where we are

Ah, so in the absence of a unifying positive vision, destruction becomes the default consensus

yup

thats where we are

Ok, this fits

Chaos is the natural state of the universe.

Life is also a natural state, and it reverses chaos locally.

accepting that we are in the end, and knowing that it will end, the hope is for the better form to take root

But yes, this fits with my understanding of the life cycle of empire/civilization.

I don't see a better form emerging