Reply #10: One big problem with communism...

[LoZoccolo]

...is that you have to get into such a compliant, conformed mindset under a vanguard party to organize a revolution, and after the revolution you'd have to maintain that mindset to prevent a counterrevolution, and it all becomes so totalitarian it doesn't even work and it's not even worth it. It's just one ruling class replacing another. And you can see it coming just by hanging out with the people in those organizations long enough; it's obnoxious and you know it's all just gonna head to shit if the people who act that way now are actually going to gain power.

I think the appeal of Trotskyism is that it's untried, so it's adherents can claim that what happened to the totalitarian communist countries won't happen after /their/ revolution.