Comment by nospice
6 days ago
About the most important tenet of communism is collectivism. When you attempt collectivization on a national level, there's always a significant portion of the population who doesn't want to play along and wants to keep doing their own thing. That's the end of the road for your political system unless you do a bit of mass murder, which is why every "successful" communist state resorted to that.
So yes, of course, no political ideology has "let's murder millions of people" as its founding principle. But some political systems require it.
or you let them be hermits that they are. No need to murder people. If they don't fit in with the collectivism then they are shunned from society. Much like social media.
It's important to remember the Anti-Comintern Pact started as an anti-communist agreement between Germany and Japan. Look what that did.