>>34599I'm going to respond with a post I made in respinse to a thread on this board a few weeks ago, since it covers many of my most essential problems with Marxism.
The essential problems with Marxism (yes I know you said "Communism/Socialism/Anarchism"), I think, are as follows.
Marxism is based around freeing an oppressed lower proletariat class from an oppressive bourgeoisie class. This means first, that Marxism doesn't actually have much of an idea of what its ideal society will look like, what the good of an individual is, or what a good society is. It only knows what is evil - the oppressive bourgeoisie class and its oppressive oppression. And it has no other evils to its puritanical morality, meaning that the basic functions of morality are ignored by it. I think this is why communist youth are petulant children - they have no moral concerns for decency, self-control, politesse, or respect for others, because their ideology allows for only one evil and no good.
Second, Marxism is never really satisfied that the Bourgeois class has been removed. It constantly looks for the oppressive class everywhere, and tends to tends to think it's found it. As such, it's constantly crusading. See the eternal revolution concept in Maoism or look at any of the "white privilege" nonsense in modern Neo-Marxism.
Third, it is so extremely collectivistic and deterministic that it does not provide any dignity to the individual human being. Every human is only the product of economic or social forces and is either a product of the oppressive class - which must be destroyed in its entirety - or a part of the oppressed, who may be sacrificed for the greater good of the whole. I think this is why Communism and Marxism tend towards extreme democide. The ideology demands it, and there is no reason not to.
Finally, and because of the fact that it sees everything as bourgeois oppression, it must be tyrannical in how it handles dissent. Every tiny bit of dissent again the communist "plan" is perceived as the oppressive class trying to reassert itself. And so all dissent must be silenced to end the oppression. See how modern feminists (Neo-Marxists) so quickly call out other feminists for being part of the oppressive patriarchy. That, I think, is another reason why Marxist Communism invariably becomes totalitarianism.
In short, it's a puritanical morality based solely on killing off an "oppressive" bogeyman. Though other ideologies frequently become oppressive genocidal totalitarian regimes, Communism invariably does. And that is why.