How we got to Western totalitarianism. Part 1 The communist disappointment of WW1

Communists expected WW1 to lead to world revolution. It didn't. Cultural Marxism or Critical Theory (behind today's woke-ism) was the Western communist response to that disappointment. In the name of 'progress' and under the banner of 'progressivism', communists discount all Western moral progress in the rush to destroy Western culture.