Perhaps the reason Americans delight in the idea of Communism so much is because they have never suffered under it. The idea of a society of mutual benifit overshadowes the complexities and shortcomings of naitonalized production that Marxist society implies.
Americans, in the early 20th century, probably romanticised Communist values. I don't know how many people thought the Bolshevik revolution was quaint, but perhaps Americans' faint desire to overthrow corruption and greed in capitalism could be reflected in a foreign country's attempt to oust a gluttonous failed monarchy.
Human beings are evolutionary programmed to understand the idea of strength in numbers and the idea that a nation would work together on an equal playing field for a common goal is a nice little thought. But since few of us are actually the suffers of bourgeoisie oppression, we don't know what it's like do we?
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