Communism = Bad???

Throughout my pre-college years, we never really learned about communism, and what we did learn was negative. It doesn’t make sense why teachers want to convey negativity when thinking of communism. It’s been engrained within me to think negatively when I even hear the word. What’s so bad about communism that teachers don’t even want us to know about it? Why does everyone pretend that Marx had such terrible ideas?

I think it’s because it has been attempted by other countries who failed at really fulfilling Marx’s intentions. He said it would eventually stem from capitalism, so that might be an indicator of why other countries didn’t do so well (among other reasons of course). But because China and Russia didn’t do it right, we see communism as such a bad thing when it really isn’t. Schools need to really teach students what the core values of communism are, because they really aren’t as bad as China and Russia (etc) make them seem.