Chaplin must have known by 1947....
that communism wasn't working.
sharePeople today are pledging themselves to Marx, Guevara, and Stalin. They've had the Communist legacy of blood and chains of the 20th century to observe and still they persist.
The thing about Communism is that the idea is noble (fairness to all!) and the rhetoric is intoxicating, so people fall for it, especially strident students with little experience and a lot of passion.