Secrets

1 Be a politician.
2 Extract value from the populous based on state force.
3 Control the media,
4 Jail/kill the undesirables.

Honestly those make sense but my point still stands

It's a common way for attempts at communism to fail. Try reading Animal Farm, it was written by a socialist as a warning about the corruption of the attempt toward rules an elite that opposes everyone else and steals the wealth of the common worker.

We know. We know how to prevent it

Then how come it never has been prevented any time communism on a state level has been tried? The only conclusion would be it isn't actually known or the goal is of communist revolutionaries is to form an elite that oppresses everyone else and steal the wealth of the common worker.

Anarchism first

Then you get warlords or another country takes over. So the answer is really don't have a solution.

Sounds like a good place

Man, if owed a radio station, I'd play that other song.

Once again, we’re fine with it.

You just described the democrat party.

It's both