For one thing fascism was always a failure mode of democratic societies while communism was a failure mode of feudal/agrarian/autocratic societies. Maybe the Communists could have won electorally in Germany in the 1920s but it wasn't close anywhere else.
Marx predicted that workers would rise up in factories and seize the means of production but realistically Communist took over backward countries, killed the landlords and starved the peasants to fund rapid industrialization and sorta succeeded at it.
Zohran Mamdani says he wants to have government run grocery stores but that's not seizing the means of production it's seizing the means of distribution. I want to say it's beyond the pale but I grew up in "live free or die" New Hampshire where the state owned the liquor stores and it didn't seem like dangerous communism but the people in tax-a-chusetts were always complaining that we sold cheap booze.
Marx predicted that workers would rise up in factories and seize the means of production but realistically Communist took over backward countries, killed the landlords and starved the peasants to fund rapid industrialization and sorta succeeded at it.
Zohran Mamdani says he wants to have government run grocery stores but that's not seizing the means of production it's seizing the means of distribution. I want to say it's beyond the pale but I grew up in "live free or die" New Hampshire where the state owned the liquor stores and it didn't seem like dangerous communism but the people in tax-a-chusetts were always complaining that we sold cheap booze.