Communists always push this because it's true that their specific faction is being suppressed or isn't winning.
This is why Stalin called Socialists in Spain like George Orwell "Trotskyite Fascists". The Bolsheviks called the Mensheviks "counter-revolutionaries". The German Communists called the Social Democratic Party of Germany Capitalists. Pol Pot declared that the KGB were attempting to stop a true Communist revolution in Cambodia. So on and so forth.
If their specific niche faction isn't winning, it's because all other Leftist factions are part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
Communists always push this because it's true that their specific faction is being suppressed or isn't winning.
This is why Stalin called Socialists in Spain like George Orwell "Trotskyite Fascists". The Bolsheviks called the Mensheviks "counter-revolutionaries". The German Communists called the Social Democratic Party of Germany Capitalists. Pol Pot declared that the KGB were attempting to stop a true Communist revolution in Cambodia. So on and so forth.
If their specific niche faction isn't winning, it's because all other Leftist factions are part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.