Let's get back on track and address Brocks thread and concerns.He asks

Are we on guard against communism with the same fervor and paranoia?

I would argue that yes we should never be apathetic because that threat is real but not from what you guys call 'leftists' or communism.

Lenin and Stalin were proponents of authoritarian nationalism and that attitude is more fully realised in the dictatorial style of far right and alt right narcassists like Trump and Johnson.

Lenin replaced the workers Marx wanted to empower with the Communist party. He took advantage of the fact that 80% of Russia were illiterate to justify a political class that ignored the principles Marx had envisioned

Lenin in simple terms replaced the dictatorship of class with the dictatorship of party. The Communist Party made up of out of touch intellectuals.

Johnsons alt right Tories are very similar in some ways but are full of that aristocratic class who are just as out of touch and see nothing wrong with that dictatorial style in which like China's rich families and establishment figures like Trump, they steal billions from the country in the name of nationalism and give to their selves, friends and families.

They are also controlled by the media elite, people like Murdoch and the Barclay brothers with which they control the people and direct the workers anger toward immigration and even other poor or working class people to maintain that stranglehold.