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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.
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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.