In The US, calling anyone who espouses anything which even remotely resembles a left-wing view communist is a time honored tradition. Shit, Breitbart called Micheal Bloomberg Maoist.

Shit’s ennervating.

Westerners have never been concerned with the nature of reality beyond what’s useful to justifying their position in the economic pyramid

we’ll call literally anything communist including ourselves

Oil

Officially, Russia is a multi-party representative democracy lol.