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I don't know how you could possibly equate the 'modern left' with Marxism. Modern liberalism is based on the thinkers of the 18th century, who believed that all men have innate rights and are generally good beings. Marxism is based in economic principles such as that products have an inherent labor value instead of an artificial market value, something which all but hardline Marxists in this day and age reject as false.

Communism isn't an ideological 'umbrella'. If anything that term would apply to socialism, especially democratic socialism. DS is the ideology of the modern left throughout much of the world, not Marxism.

Moreover, your idea that the Soviet Union collapsed due to Stalin's crimes against humanity is completely false; the USSR lived on for several decades after Stalin's fall. It was the economic policies that doomed the nation.