Is Communism finally dying? Did Castro's death mark the

>>3227116
Compared to ten years ago, both are on the rise in many Western countries. I don't see Hitler or Lenin popping up anytime soon, but it is a reach to say both are fully dead. It makes sense they would gain some popularity, as the younger generations that never witnessed them in person are relatively distant to the Cold War and especially WW2 compared to their parents and grandparents. As history moves on, the emotional attachments to past events wither away and people start to reform old ideas they think can be better this time around.

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>>3227116
China and Vietnam are pretty much Marxist in name only. They're not totally free market but they've drifted in that direction over the past few decades. Don't know much about Laos or Cuba.

>>3227258
>both are on the rise in many Western countries.
Only if you consider leftism as a subculture rather than a coherent ideology, and even that's debatable. The old fashioned communists, who have overthrowing the capitalist class as a first priority and can actually tell you the difference between ML and Trotskyism, are all but extinct. Meanwhile, thanks to over a century of constantly moving goalposts, there are still plenty of people who call themselves "Marxists" or "communists" but have completely detached ideas of what those words mean. Many of them have no idea what surplus labor or dialectical materialism are.

>>3227421
Laos is like China also, in that a communist party runs the country but doesn't practice communist ideology and is mostly a capitalist society