On the other hand that which does not correspond with any human need always face self destruction. After having truly lived under a communist regime, I can affirm that this regime does not answer the needs of the person. Morally, it oppresses and paralyzes. Materially, it impoverishes and starves. This is so true today, that they have been forced to go to the school of capitalism, following the wake of the market economy.
Communism henceforth has no contents, it is only an empty void.
If the Communism of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has been scuttled, it is because it no longer responded to any needs. According to the same law of natural selection, from a certain point of view, Buddhism responds to certain human needs. It is therefore difficult to make it disappear. The proof is in what has happened to the pagodas of North Vietnam formerly destroyed by the Communists, not the ones totally razed to the ground for ricefields but the ones which still kept their old foundations. The people have built straw houses over these foundations, and sometimes in the better off communes, they have erected brick buildings for a decent place of worship for the Buddhists congregations.