Real communism doesn't exist

There are two types of communism. Karl Marx's version of communism and regular communism. Regular communism is limited to a smaller group of individuals who decide to pool their resources in a commune. Some prosper but many fail.

Karl Marx's communism has been the inspiration for every socialist regime since. Marx's communism is just a variation of socialism. Marxian socialism has been tried and retried over and over with no success anywhere. Because Marx was an idiot.

Libertarian Left v Authoritarian Left.
They all start off with dreams of Libertarian Leftism, but the problem is it doesnt scale to large populations, that's why gulag and the pistol have to come in to correct the problems of human nature.

There is no such thing as the Libertarian Left. Freedom does not exist on the left. Not on the modern left anyway. Classical liberalism is only found on the modern right, just as classical conservatism is only found on the left.

The scale that we were taught in school where communism and socialism is on the far left while nazism and fascism is on the far right is bogus and a lie. It cannot work because nazism and fascism are just variations of socialism. There is no room for freedom between that right/left scale.

Freedom is found at the opposite end of the scale from authoritarianism. Libertarians are at the far right of the correct scale and anarchy is at the extreme right.

"Gulags and pistols" are used by governments to control people that is why government must be extremely limited, small and virtually powerless. When that is the case then "gulags and pistols" are only used to restrain people who cannot stop themselves from violating other people's freedom.

Freedom works but it is very hard to maintain. People are too eager to give up liberty for safety.