In hindsight, we know what Communism does not actually work in theory as its implementation makes the country prone to economic stagnancy and subject to political corruption and lots of political and economic problems in the general public in that Communist state or people who desired change for the good of their nation but also involved utilitarian means to get what they desired like Lenin with the violent and even brutal overthrow of the government and demanding the spread of Communist propoganda, Mao who wanted to fight against the Chinese feudalism and potential Japanese take-over but his goals of the Chinese Revolution involved famine, economic stagnancy and even genocide

(And we also learned on how far the two opposing ideologies are willing to go for, which in my opinion, it felt like a 40 year war of imperialism or who had the biggest penis even if it meant showing off nuclear warheads, to show off whose ideology was better where the same war achieved nothing for both sides in the end except for some technological advancement that are still advancing to this day)

But even the early 20th Century when the Communist ideology was starting to be established, many people hated the Communists so much and were frightened by them like the Spanish Civil War was mostly anti-Communist, the Shanghai massacre involved the execution of lots of Chinese communists and the Reichstag fire was wrongfully blamed to the Communists.

So why exactly was the early pre-Cold War 20th Century really hesitant against Communism in the first place?