I know most of you are too far gone, but for others I ask that you please, please read this in full.
Communism is an ideal, in the sense that communists see the unprecedented rise in wealth and standards of living in democracies, and nevertheless assume that they individually can order the world better than can competition.
That is an extraordinarily arrogant claim, as it implies omnipotence.
Mode of production and Mode of management cannot be practically separated, to claim otherwise is a weak semantic game that will only win you points among believers.
You recognise that ownership of the means of production is compatible with capitalism as all the desirable percieved ends of socialist ideology are actually slowly manifest of the emergent order of a free market.
(Remember, "Free Market" means free from designated ends, not regulation. The point of a free market is to establish competition, the maintenance of competition requires certain regulation.
A topical example of this would be Net Neutrality, which is a regulation which protects competition).
Ideology is absolutely a factor behind Revolution, folk need their emotional intuition to righteous indignation backed by some attempt at reasoning. Socialist ideology is that attempt at post hoc reasoning.
How does one convince anyone to do anything if there is no value placed on merit? Without some form of exchange how does one punish laziness or incompetence whilst rewarding hard work and efficacy?
The socialist answer thus far has been corporeal, that is brutal physical punishment, rather than dispassionate monetary incentive.
Do you truly not see how incompetent and ultimately violent such an ordering of society necessarily becomes?
And I know you guys always respond indignantly that economists always just use religious, moral etc justifications for capitalism, but this isn't true at all. For a hint at the economic sphere in leiu of actually reading economic philosophy or research, I recommend Russ Roberts' world renowned podcast "Econtalk". Read Hayek's "Road to Serfdom", it is a world renowned evisceration of socialism.
A free-market works because like a biological system, it uses a few simple rules to produce a self-correcting and ever progressing order which no one individual or group could ever be capable of dictating.
Every "Marxist" appears a hack - despite many of them being quite intelligent - because communism is a defunct activist ideology founded on 17th century scientific ignorance, the notion that we are a blank Slate, capable of being perfectly molded by culture.
(I think this ignorance ought not be to readily attributed to great fault of Marx' capacity as a thinker, he was undoubtedly a genius).
His legacy ought be modern taxation policy, fair working hours and labour unions.
Don't ask for it be more deaths, and join liberals in fighting the fights that truly matter instead