The entire socialist revival movement explained (you have to be ignorant to believe in it):

Distance from that history lets Jacobin promote a very different brand of socialism without being overly defensive about the past or feeling a need to redbait those to its left for being insufficiently anti-communist or pro-American. This historical distance is also perhaps the reason young people are so receptive to the idea of socialism today.

Jacobin is my favorite commie rag. The howlers emitted from there are nonstop.