The first point which arises here is that you have a rather restricted view as to what Communism is. The idea of Communism did not start with Karl Marx - but started in that most left wing of all books the Bible. Up to around AD 1800 all texts advocating a communalistic way of life had come from religious sources. Even within Marxist ideology (I mean Marxist and not some variation of it) real Communism can only exist upon the erosion of the nation state and its breakdown into a confederation of communities organized on a voluntary basis and based on ownership either directly by the commune or by the workers themselves in the form of cooperatives. The mistake of Marxism is to presume that any state, once established, will subsequently relinquish power in this way - it has never happened. The idea that a state could organize its own erosion of powers in this way was always an illusion. An 'interim period of state control' became permanent, as was always going to happen. Real Communism does not begin with the nation state - it begins with the commune, hence the name. The USSR was never a Communist state - the closest we have come to this were the Anarcho communist regions during the Spanish civil war - which were suppressed with the help of Stalin.
I truly think there might well be a reset of some sort because we cannot go back to the old normality which caused this problem in the first place. We cannot go back to the old 'normality' of having over a million people sitting in planes at any one time. We cannot go back to the old 'normality' of thinking we can use the resources of 4 planets when we only have one. We have to be thinking about the possibility of developing a post growth society - and I do not believe that alternative energy is the way (there I disagree with most Greens). We cannot provide a techno fix solution and give over the idea that we can produce the same as before, and consume the same as before just with different (so called) Co2 friendly technology because there is no such thing as Co2 friendly growth. Obviously there are people thinking about how they can change the World as a result of covid 19 - but this is a different thing to saying that the whole thing was engineered for that purpose.
As for the basic conditional income - I am fully in favour of it. It shows your low image of mankind that you think people would spend all their time in front of the TV as a result of it. Far more would it help to release creative potential if the basic essentials of life are secured.
A completely deindustrialized continent ? Has it escaped your notice that Europe has been deindustrializing for nearly a hundred years ? How many of the workforce worked in industrial production in 1900 - then compare that to 1950 and then to now. The percentage has been going down consistently over the whole period - yet we still have enough work around, just of a different sort.
