Communism does not take off in stable prosperous societies because there isn't a market for it. I'm more careful with those kinds of generalizations these days

Communism does not take off in stable prosperous societies because there isn't a market for it. I'm more careful with those kinds of generalizations these days than I used to be. As a rule, Trump-like demagogues don't win elections in stable, prosperous societies, either. It always takes some kind of crisis -- a lost war, oppressive debt, ruined national self-image, runaway inflation, intolerable abuse by the incumbent regime -- yet here we are. Propaganda is more powerful than I thought it was... and who's better at propaganda than the Communists?