Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Khrushchev, Pol Pot, Gramsci, Mao, and all the others were FAR from stupid Jackie.
Most of these people were highly educated with many learning about marxism from european colleges. Pol Pot actually went to college in france.
The Communists and Cultural Marxists/critical theorists of the twentieth century were far more intelligent than most of us here on sherdog.
"outright evil people"
According to who? You? These communists were atheists, they didn't believe in "good" or "evil". They were beyond this good vs evil christian paradigm.
They only believed in creating an atheistic, collectivist, "utopia" on the ruins of capitalism.