Scenario: The emperor is walking around naked. Nobody dares say so; the few that did were indicted for sartorial heresy, lost their jobs, lost their homes and businesses won't serve them. They live under the railway bridge next to the pedos. (1/)
Of course - communism is the end result of a belief system being under selective pressure to get intellectuals to believe it and to be impossible to make a clear decisive argument against it. If not communism, then something else would emerge to fill that niche.