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I think the things we like about Communism, in theory, are laudable. It's just that in its implementation, it pretty much necessitates a lot of the terrible shit that has been discussed, so much so that it's generally just a question of extent.
There's more than a whiff of the 'no true Scotsman' about it all. We want to believe in it, but it tends to go 'wrong' almost by design.
DayTripper_Mk2-
There's more than a whiff of the 'no true Scotsman' about it all.
That goes both ways though.
Whenever I get into similar discussion about socialism, colleague always say; "give me an example of where it's worked", followed by, "no, that isn't socialism".
I've now taken to; "give me an example where capitalism has worked" followed by listing examples of why whatever country isn't truly capitalist.
hugo7
It's a fair point that people used the ideology as an excuse, but communism as an idea didn't cause those killings. At it's heart communism is about equality, all people being equal, the fact that there has been genocides in it's name doesn't change this. Whereas a nationalist ideology like Nazism is very much about one group of people being more important than others. That's why they can never be equivalents.