This is part of why communists are so destructive. Small-c conservatives wish to make changes - if they wish to make changes at all - by small, measured alterations, evaluating as you go.
Communists, on the other hand, seem to want to much more satisfying experience of knocking every flat in order to build again. It's much more visceral and exciting, so visceral and exciting, in fact, that they never seem to progress beyond the "knocking everything flat" stage in any particularly significant degree. At least until the inevitable Party apparatchiks turn up, execute the useful idiots and impose an old-fashioned, but marginally workable dictatorship.
This is part of why communists are so destructive. Small-c conservatives wish to make changes - if they wish to make changes at all - by small, measured alterations, evaluating as you go.
Communists, on the other hand, seem to want to much more satisfying experience of knocking every flat in order to build again. It's much more visceral and exciting, so visceral and exciting, in fact, that they never seem to progress beyond the "knocking everything flat" stage in any particularly significant degree. At least until the inevitable Party apparatchiks turn up, execute the useful idiots and impose an old-fashioned, but marginally workable dictatorship.