Asklemmy

I'm curious whether you have read any of Orwell's essays on Socialism and Marxism? He was critical of Marxists mainly in that he felt they were too academic and out of touch, but he agreed with their fundamental goals. He fought alongside Marxists in the Spanish Civil War. A place to start would be The Road to Wiggen Pier.

Didn’t the fall of USSR teach us anything?

That wasn't true Marxism. We can know whether or not it's true Marxism by whether it works or not, and since it didn't work, obviously it wasn't true Marxism.

will they do anything different than the dictators of the soviet union?

The saintly leaders of the Soviet Union were not dictators, but merely custodians of the people's own will.

another mass murder seems to be perfectly fine!

Do not believe the western propaganda. The places he supposedly committed mass murder in do not even exist in reality. Go check a Russian map. This never-never land called Ukraine isn't even real, but a fiction of western imperialists dreamt up to slander the great Russian people and by extension Marxism (or possibly vice versa).

@Owell1984

In short: bad ideas don't completely die just because they're bad. Bad ideas will always have their passionate fans, despite the popularity of the idea, or lack thereof.

I mean, Nazism is still a thing too, as is the fascism that often accompanies both Nazism and Marxism. The fact that these ideas persist means little, as nearly all ideas persist to some extent.

@Owell1984 Btw, there is more to leftism/socialism than Marxism. There's also people like Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Benjamin Tucker, and Josiah Warren (although I haven't read anything by the latter).