How do you explain literally every revolution in history before communism was invented?
The downtrodden do not magically reinvent communism one day.
Oligarchs come to the ghettos they created and go
> "hello fellow commoners. how would you like to tear down the rulers that oppress you. and here I have a bunch of weapons and financial support to fund this revolution with".
The downtrodden will join any revolution that comes along and offers them something.
Communism does not carry any more appeal than any other form of revolutionary rhetoric to them.
If communism was so appealing to the downtrodden then they wouldn't need to astroturf it so hard
Communist revolutions follow the same footsteps as other revolutions have in history, no matter the pretext -- that it offers something better than what the people have at the moment.
Communism's false lure is that
everyone is equal. That's the appeal.
That sounds a hell of a lot better than, say, a dictator taking over and favouring a special few (which is ironic because this is what a communist state becomes anyway, haha), an ethnicity or racial group becoming dominant and persecuting others (thus other racial groups in a country being oppressed and causing tension), or a religious ideology becoming the guiding force, with "unbelievers" or those considered "lesser" basically spat on -- we see this especially in the Islamic world between sects and Christianity sects in the past.
Each of the above will put one or more groups at a disadvantage while others, an advantage. Communism is
supposed to eliminate that problem while also appealing to people's more darker parts of human nature -- "getting free shit" (which, ya know, is complete bullshit but that's what's expected).
The elites/oligarchs and others like them know how to use this to exploit people with less than two brain cells to rub together, and the desperate people out there. That's why they "astroturf" it so much -- they're making an already appealing philosophy more appealing by promoting it for their own ends, and it only
helps sucker people in; it's not the sole way it's spreading.
It also doesn't help that out of control capitalism, as seen in the US, is making this false lure seem more and more sweet and tempting to bite.
Remember: "It WaSn'T ReaL CoMmUniSm!"