And Guantanamo Bay, black sites, Alligator Auschwitz, and the American prison population confirms the downsides of capitalism?

One shit iteration of "communism" that by definition didn't meet any of the requirements to be called communism can't be held up forever to be the boogeyman to prevent progress.

Communism (from Latin communis 'common, universal')[1][2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6] and the state.[7][8][9]

The USSR:

• Common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange - not achieved, state owned but not common owned
• Allocates products in society based on need - not achieved
• Absence of private property - partially achieved, state owned
• Absence of social classes - not achieved
• Absence of money - not achieved
• Absence of the state - fucking lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism