Yeah , I see where you ' re getting from , and this is for a big part the problem with dividing the political spectrum in a nice leftright compass . On economic perspective , the analogue to communism is definitely libertarianism . Full public control of production , versus full private control . But then when you go to social issues , communism and libertarianism isn ' t really opposite . Not saying communism is per definition super open to things like abortion and LGBTrights . But they from within the ideology they are not opposed either . In general the farleft at least in the west shares the same values as libertarians regarding civil libertiesSo we run into issues when trying to look at complete opposites . On economic perspective communismlibertarianism is pretty much opposite indeed . But for example Clinton was more in generous towards global free trade than Trump . Which is offputting for the farleft . But then again , Trump is staunchly against regulations . Something the left generally does approve . So it ' s hard to place this issue on a leftright spectrum , and I think any effort to do this clearly will miss the mark somewhere . So my use of communism as the farleft analogy of the altright misses the mark as well . Which was kinda your point . So yeah , you ' re probably right on this . That it was wrong for me to use ' communism ' as the analogue for altright .