I agree, but I believe this is actually slowly changing. Communism is slowly coming into public discourse as more than just a curseword, and some communist parties are growing a lot in relative numbers (albeit slowly in absolute ones).

A good commentary on the sanity of the Brazilian people

We had a ditactorship, with some USA intervention, to “fight against the communism” in the period.

We had a coup d'état during the Cold War period, there are reports that there was influence from the United States to make it happen. In Brazil, we have public health (SUS) and public education, a large part of the taxes go to pensions, education, health and security, there is also a public elite that represents 0.2% of public employees who receive a combined 8 billion annually, and there is an agribusiness bench that votes for its own interests and releases billions. To keep this machine working, many taxes are collected, we have very high taxes, when they want to reduce taxes, they normally cut them from the bottom (health, security and education), never from the top. The left in Brazil does not talk about communism as an authoritarian tool for the State to take companies for itself, but rather a way to remove the super rich from politics who act in their own cause to benefit their own businesses.