I think about this, too. The bloodlust that gets posted here sometimes is very offputting. Advocates for killing all chuds post-revolution don't make me feel comfortable with the idea of building communism shoulder to shoulder with them.
Communists in 1949 conservative imagination: operating in cells, murdering infiltrators, pressuring shipping execs to undermine the US economy
Communists in 2021 conservative imagination: think black people have a point about police brutality