On what killed communism: Mindfulness is the alpha and omega, and the "masses" or people made "self-conscious" of a notion that they have no soul and no true spirit to speak of, that they are nothing but matter in motion or just products of external, material conditions are bound to become defeated slaves again

Another lesson from "real socialism"--without one's ownership and possession of one's own mind (i.e., spirit and soul), "the ownership of the means of production" is bound to mean sooner or later (or rather very soon) absolutely nothing or/and is a scam. And to make people believe that their mind is just an organized matter is tantamount to telling them what materialism and atheism assert openly--that their soul does not exist, respectively that they "don't have it" and that who they are and also their mind is just a product and a result of external conditions, material forces from without. And without having one's own mind, how can one claim to have truly, really anything else? At the same time, the paradox is while one's mind is or ought to be the own-most one has, any true mind, spirit or soul is by definition universal.

In the most fundamental way, what destroyed and defeated communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was the loss and death of the/its spirit which was inevitable with its soulless and anti-spiritual materialism and with "leaders" such as Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Brezhnev, Yeltsin and other similar soulless and anti-spirit hollow men, who, as it turned out, had nothing in common with the original spirit of communism. It was also thanks to this anti-mindful materialism that most communists and Marxists could not even detect or foresee the betrayal of communism by its own leadership and the death of the system or its killing from above which had been systematically put in place over decades since at least the early 1950s.