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Not communism is bad, it's bad an asshole in the gov, calling it communism without beeing it, but an fascism. It's like North Corea, called an communist system, but it isn't its an fascist dictatorship, with an asshole lider, not the people which gov. This certainly is a bad system, but not worse as capitalism, Its when the extreme right took with the extreme left, than its always deadly for the people. Currently a real communism don't exist in the worl, because any intention to form it was sabotaged and corrupted by the capitalist elite, they all are more ore less bloody dictatorships.
The notion of dictatorship in a sense of a single person running things is deeply unserious. As Anna Louise Strong puts it in This Soviet World: