Everyone hates it until they learn what it actually is.
The ideology revolving around the creation of a communist society, which is a society following the abolition of class, money, and the state. Frequently, Western
imperialist states project the flaws of capitalism onto communism to prevent the people from realizing their current state of oppression, and in doing so establish capitalist ideals as
natural law; this phenomenon is known as
cultural hegemony, coined by Antonio Gramsci.
Libertarian: Communism is when the government does
everything, right? That's awful.
Person who has read books: No, dipshit, that's not communism.
Liberal: Communism places all power in the hands of the few. That's why we need
liberal democracy, in which the capitalist mode of production invariably leads to monopoly!