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I mean, in the the liberal west used violence to replace comunism with a right wing dictatorship. Yes.
However that isn't really a flaw in comunist theory
Yes. Basically, any time someone tries to do something nice for everyone and introduce communism, some people or other come along and fuck it all up. Then they call their fucked up monstrosity "communism" to further damage the credibility of any meaningful progress.
Those people are the same people who fuck up capitalism and distort it for their benefit. Maybe it's easier for them to do under capitalism, maybe that's just what they're used to and they don't want to change, but if all you do is deal with capitalism as the problem then you're still going to have a people problem with whatever comes next.
Those people who come along and fuck it up are capitalists.
You call them capitalists because they were successful at fucking up capitalism.
I think you are missing some necessary historical context to follow along with what they're saying here. Capitalists (through military, CIA, NATO etc) have routinely engaged in mass killings of communists around the world. One specific instance being the murder of 1 million+ people (communists) in Indonesia between 1965-1966 all organized and funded by the US. There's a great book about this called The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World that I think everyone who isn't familiar with the incident should read.
that makes no sense
Cna you show me an example of where capitlaism has worked? The system has failed every time it has been tried. It is so bad that being around it is bad for other systems. If the systems they touch always fair it is time to consider why they are so toxic.