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Communists saw Capitalism as Feudalism evolved, and eventually things would get so bad everyone would revolt against the landlords and the factoryowners whose ownership of everything forced the masses to work for starvation wages. This shared experience made Communism inevitable, so the working people of the world would cooperate and never live this way again.

Reading this optimism now is quite painful.