>>5217328separate marxism from stalinism, which by no means was communist and let alone marxist.
Maoism didn't want to have anything in common with USSR after Krushchev's shit.
North Korea is literally erasing any communism mentions.
Khmer Rogue didn't even consider themselves communists and got rightfully invaded by actual communists.
I'm confident enough to say that nobody cares about your family since it's either the past, the soviet union or colorised histories. Or sometimes you'll encounter a die-hard tankie who'll claim that the Soviet Union did absolutely nothing wrong.
For every "communists took my mansion and my servants" is "socialists gave me a flat, a job, a car and both me and my wife could easily work and still have two kids".
People will always try to search for the easier solutions and a state giving them everything they need really is easy.