In the West communist parties are tiny compared to the rest of the population and have been antagonized for almost a century.
I literally don’t know one American irl that knows what communism and socialism actually are and all of them just think that both of those are bad
Kind of like this
https://www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZT2C7LsHj/
I am not so sure that westerners will listen to communist even when they are doing a Revolution. I think that probably a París Commune 2.0 will happen.
Parties can be small and then become quite big and a majority. The Bolsheviks were a minority, don’t forget it. It works also the other way around, look how the SED disappeared.