VGPolyglot said:
It's communism has never happened, and the regimes that people call communists themselves didn't even say that they were communist. The parties were called communist because they claimed to be the vanguard party that would lead to communism, not that they were communist. |
This is one of the lame excuses every new communist regime used just to become even worse than the ones that preceded it. The other excuses were that things were going bad due to reactionary and counter-revolutionary saboteurs, to blame and kill innocent scapegoats for the regimes' errors, incompetence and inefficiency.
If no revolution ever achieved this mythical "true communism", maybe it just doesn't exist, or maybe the only one coming close is that of communes, monasteries and other communities, religious or not.
BTW, even Lenin understood that attempts to establish "true communism" were taking USSR to disaster and he launched the NEP, but regrettably he saw too late, when he was ill and going to die, the true nature of Stalin and he couldn't stop him.
