>>70166
>What makes us hate communism?
It's the ideology of entitlement, envy, herdism, and blind activism. Entitlement and envy both appeal to misanthropes, and nothing makes you a misanthrope quicker than the democratic political process mixed with an urban lifestyle. Add to that a life without perspective or ambition, without spirituality, and with unstable relationships, one in which the only thing that's real are material goods. Basically, these people have nothing left but money and they see that most of it is in the hands of assholes that don't deserve it. Of course, that's an ideal type. Few people are that way, but enough are to have an impact. Welfare queens are a prime example.
It may seem odd that misanthropes would also be herdists, but keep in mind that nothing is more hostile to outsiders than a large mobs. In a mob, misanthropes channel their hatred away from each other to some group of people. Lack of self-esteem plays a role here, too. Weak people can play strong by ganging up, so their herdist drive is strong. Hope that terminology was self-explaining. Sorry if it wasn't.
Blind activism is based on similar motives. Communists want to transform the world because they hate it. It's without value to them, so why preserve it? That's why they want to radically transform the world, and why they are not inhibited in this desire. But even then, their activism could be guided by something, and yet - very often - it's not. Many leftists simply want to cause mayhem. Eldridge Cleaver raped black women to "practice" his rape technique, so that he could later ravage white women. The Khmer Rouge, Red Guards, Gulag personnel, they all were cruel for the fun of it. That's why I call it blind activism, because it cannot be understood in terms of its expressed external purpose. It's simply an outlet for the vicious nature of the one doing it.
From all this, it follows why communism is repulsive. To all communists not part of a particular group, it's simply the other mob that causes mayhem, the one they don't belong to. Such is the case between most Nazis and leftists. But to others, communism is inherently repulsive, especially to people who don't feel weak and perpetually humiliated. They feel threatened, not strengthened, when they're part of a crazy mob, and they feel repressed when they're conforming, while they don't see group action as an expression of their desires. They are fine with what they have and don't see their neighbors gain as their loss. And they don't need to vent their bad feelings by vandalizing property or killing people.
Now, there are a few noble socialists, weird as this may sound. Lassalle is a great example, a man who died in a duel to get together with his loved one. Subcommandante Marcos may be another example, but I'm not sure of that yet. These people don't realize the laws of economics and think that wealth is siphoned away from the poor and to the rich. They don't understand that the economy is not zero-sum. If they did, I bet they'd be far more receptive to individualist philosophies.