Two people mentioned communism before you made your contribution. Both agreed with the following quotation of Bakunin:
Not exactly an endorsement of Maoism or Stalinism. So before you argue against all the communists around here, first check if there are any. Then, check if what they mean by communism has anything to do with what you think of when you hear “communism”.
If you don’t understand how intelligent people can be incredibly misguided then you need to pay more attention to intelligent people. A great many intelligent people devote the bulk of their intelligence to convincing themselves of nonsense. Intelligent people who are unaware of that are especially susceptible to it.
