The way they did it was by segmenting communism in a way that would trick good willed people into not realizing what they were actually supporting. Critical theory by Marcuse, Postmodernism by Faocault, Deconstructionism by Jacques Derrida, etc.

Once combined it guarantees that the society becomes primed for Communist takeover since objective reality is pathologized by elite academics and human nature -- in an environment unrooted from Enlightenment age advances -- does the rest.

If the whole culture read W. Cleon Skousen's Naked Communist, The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, and James Lindsey's and Heather Pluckrose's Cynical Theories... it would become blatantly obvious that Communism really chose academia to subvert. And Corporations were massively short-sighted in their support of Communist China. Yuri Bezmenov was right.