Why do communist governments so often buy into really bad ideas

it's almost as if empowering chucklefuck peasants and wage earners to run society is an inherently flawed idea or something

>but muh educated vanguard

yes yes the dude that read Marx and engles who just five years ago spent the entirety of his life in the mountains shoveling shit is all of a sudden educated and should be the one making decisions at the local people's supreme Soviet yeah truly potentiates my peanuts

>>2398540
Okay, Cletus.

>>2398532
It isn't that they were more likely to buy into these ideas, it's just that the power structures of authoritarian states makes it easier to power such projects through any potential analyses or objections to their implementation.

This is true in right-wing authoritarian states as well as communist ones.

>>2398532
>abolish checks and balances on the power of the state
>have an identity often built on vengeance and perceived victimhood, particularly against those who previously led society
>control the media and academia, remove anyone from these positions who questions state decisions
>things often go to shit

I wonder how?

>>2398532
Most communist governments in existence outright massacred their aristocracy and intelligentsia and landowners. If Russian empire was 80% shit eating peasants, then the USSR was 100% shit eating peasants.