Butland m 8 <| sep |> Wow , you are in school for engineering ? That ' s awesome , I ' m jealous ! School is very stressful which causes weight gain and general moodiness . So when you are done with school the weight should come off , and if it doesn ' t don ' t let them bother you ! You might be surprised later in life to find out that a lot of times when people put you down it ' s because they are envious . <| sep |> Yes , I know the etymology . <| sep |> I ' m flattered , really . For starters communist ideology doesn ' t even remotely lend itself to the kinds of genocide and war we saw executed by the fascist european states . It seeks to liberate the workers of the world from the chains of capital and create a new society rooted in economic and political equality where one controls the product of their labor and arbitrary divisions of RaceClassNationalityetc cease to exist or be meaningful . Many communists believe this type of society to be inevitable and marks what Hegel calls the End of History . Bourgeois Intelligentsia declared that moment to be the present with liberal democratic capitalism , in 1989 . As we are probably both acutely aware despite where we land differently , global capitalism is failing , and it is clearly not the end of history yet , the justifiable class rage of the working class in the west has been turned by opportunistic parties read the capitalist ruling class towards powerless subgroups in the working class that make an easy scapegoat for the crimes and exploits of those actually in power . As for Stalin and Mao both had faults in their praxis , but we can and should critically analyse them and understand what can be done to improve future revolutionary theory . Almost certainly no group has picked these two figures apart more than communists and in many circles they remain controversial or divisive .