Why do people always act like communism is the greatest evil and bans free thought?

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I notice people act like communism is the most evil thing that ever existed and bans freedom. But if you read the Communist Manifesto,you will discover that all Communism is is an economic system. It doesn't necessarily ban freedom.

The men who created Communism even believed men should be freed to do they anything they want so long as they don't harm and exploit others!
Like other socialists, Marx and Engels sought an end to capitalism and the systems which they perceived to be responsible for the exploitation of workers. But whereas earlier socialists often favored longer-term social reform, Marx and Engels believed that popular revolution was all but inevitable, and the only path to socialism and communism.

According to the Marxist argument for communism, the main characteristic of human life in class society is alienation; and communism is desirable because it entails the full realization of human freedom.[6] Marx here follows Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in conceiving freedom not merely as an absence of restraints but as action with content.According to Marx, Communism's outlook on freedom was based on an agent, obstacle, and goal. The agent is the common/working people; the obstacles are class divisions, economic inequalities, unequal life-chances, and false consciousness; and the goal is the fulfillment of human needs including satisfying work, and fair share of the product.

They believed that communism allowed people to do what they want, but also put humans in such conditions and such relations with one another that they would not wish to exploit, or have any need to. Whereas for Hegel the unfolding of this ethical life in history is mainly driven by the realm of ideas, for Marx, communism emerged from material forces, particularly the development of the means of production.

You see communism is an economic system,not an evil philosophy that bans freedom and free thought.In fact most of the so- called Communist nations that existed such as the USSR were never TRULY COMMUNIST BUT MORE LIKE TOTOLATARIAN REGIMES rule by corrupt dicatatorships!