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It's not even that, most communists are just people who *think* they ought to be in power. The Bolshevik Revolution wasn't some mass uprising of le oppressed workers and peasants, it was a coup launched by a small group of rabble-rousers who managed to get a local unit in St. Petersburg on side...

Fascism similarly crashed and burned, but still doesn't get the same degree of glorification from academia. IMO it's simply because communism was never confronted and defeated in the same way fascism was. No allied soldiers charged in to liberate the gulags, and neither did communist regimes...