God. 2 years ago I was visiting a friend of mine studying art in Florence, Italy. As we were walking, I was disgusted by the sight of a major road being named after Gramsci, and I said as much.
My friend started defending communism as an attempt to change the destructive and malignant qualities of capitalism. I was just flabbergasted. She was in Italy to study the great works of art that were created there, that were BANKROLLED by wealthy capitalists like the Medicis and Borgas and Doges of Venice.
I asked her why she wasn't studying art in Romania or Russia or Bulgaria. Turns out she travelled to all those countries the next summer, and was pretty appalled by how malignant communism was itself.