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The goal of communism is not communism. The reason despots favor Marxist philosophy is because to give Marxism half a chance at working the government needs complete control over every aspect of your life.Excellent discussion topic and well presented. However, the chart/graphics need a bit of tweaking I think. It stops short on the left side.
On the left the extreme is not fascism but communism, i.e. presumed total freedom. Fascism is a stage on the road to totalitarianism which is a necessary stage of the Marxist process before communism can be achieved. Unfortunately no government having achieved those stages on the road to communism has been willing to voluntarily relinquish it as Marx/Engles envisioned. No country calling itself communist actually is communist as all stopped at some part of the fascist or totalitarian stage.
Then when they fall short of absolute Marxism/communism, the Left points to it and says, "See, they did not live up to the absolute ideal, so that is why it did not work which is why we need to try again.