American aren't free because it's representative democratic system. No one but five houndred people can vote for your president. And there darness become. The reason about marxism (and communism) existance is to fight against that kind of circumstances that avoid people be free and choice by itself. All this misunderstood by - even- the people who promoted this before rule with iron hand, doesn't mean that in marxism (socialism or communism) is the evilness...
By telling the fact on Hitler and Musolini was left wingers (just because one of them are considered 'social nationalist') is to forget they didn't believe in Karl Marx. At all.