Cattail’s comment implies that the historical failures of socialist and communist societies is due to capitalists working to prevent them from reaching their true Utopian goals.

My point is that socialism and communism fail entirely on their own. Mao is obviously an extreme example, but far from the only such example.

For proponents of communist or socialist systems to blame capitalists as the reason they can’t have their perfect societies is pure deflection, a refusal to address their own internal problems in an honest way. It is hypocrisy and self-delusion.