[concretebob]

The Bolsheveik Revolution was not the start of communism.
Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1843, or was it 1841?
At any rate, the idea of a socialst utopia had been around a long time before Lenin, or Beria.
Even Cecil Rhoades envisoned a classless, controlled society.

[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

I'm well aware of Marx and Engels historically & of the ideas of the previous 3 centuries of writers whom or envisioned classless societies and/or utopias.

My comment was was partially injest and partially a rhetorical question in that the Soviet communist party probably had some influence (though not the primary driving force) in the founding of the ACLU.