Pretty sure that was 20th century snake oil.

Of course, I still see people falling for it, especially on college campuses.

My experience is that those people are just batshit crazy. It's like, you go to their communities and listen to what they have to say.

It's always stuff like they want Japan to step away from the international scene and allow China and NK have their say in that region. They want NK to succeed with nukes and cheered their efforts (lol, a communist group even invited that one NK defector diplomat to speak to them about the virtues of NK...he was lying to them obviously as he later defected). They whitewash all their violent revolutions and purges.