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Communism is the logical progression of society. It isn't a certainty, but the alternative in the long-run is disaster and barbarism.
Sure, but there's a lot of side paths to Communism that have resulted in genocide and environmental destruction. People need to be more skeptical of the flag bearers of Communism rather then treating it like a sport were they pick a side.
The vast majority of Marxist-Leninists don't treat it as a sport where we pick a side. MLs are fully capable of recognizing progressive movements like Cuba, the USSR, and PRC, and recognizing faux-communism a la the Gonzaloite terrorists of the Shining Path in Peru or Pol Pot the mass murderer. These latter two were not successful applications of Marxism, but deviations far beyond the norm.
Communism remains to be the logical progression of society. As production continues to centralize and class struggle heightens, the more necessary revolution and sublimating property into collective ownership and a common plan becomes. It's as much economically compelled as it is morally. The alternative, again, is barbarism as capitalism crumbles under its own unsustainability.