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Is not a "no true Scotsman" situation. USSR itself did acknowledge that whatever they have is not communism. Because they knew the definition, they knew that it's a utopian society which, as you mentioned, doesn't use money The rest of the world had to name this regime somehow. Since there was only one party, the communist party, the west named the regime "communism". Now we have a word with different meanings, depen…
Ok, so you're telling me Marxist socialists propagate an idea that they have no idea how to accomplish? I mean, I knew that, but the idea that someone would tell me this in defense of Marxist socialism by being pedantic over linguistics is kind of wild. Your school teacher got irritated and deflected immediately rather than using this as an educational opportunity. This type of behavior clearly doesn't radiate fondne…
I have no idea
> someone would tell me this in defense of Marxist socialism
If you talk about me, then I don't defend it. I defend proper word usage. Same thing with people calling everything "fascism" nowadays. Words have meanings!