Comment by mindslight

The problem isn't the "commun" but rather the "ism" - the elevation of a set of beliefs above individual human lives, and then consequently people leveraging that belief system to justify overt harm to other humans (justify to others and to themselves). Given that "communism" has very little relevance in the modern western world, yet a few other "isms" have been widely adopted to the totalitarian levels "communism" had been, the reasonable suspicion is to judge anybody still bashing "communism" as doing so with the motivation of pushing their own "ism".