Communism is not anything to hate. When I visited Cuba, the main issue was the poverty which has been imposed by US sanctions. I was also brainwashed as a child to think that communism was evil and bad. Too bad we weren't taught that capitalism or any state loses when it is not for the people it is trying to govern. We need to figure out a way that the people can govern themselves and voting just does not get us there. Communism doesn't either; I think the main reason we were supposed to hate it is because it was competing with capitalism, or so many thought.