Rigby5
Diamond Member
Marxists have appropriated the word "communist". Using it only congers images of Stalin.
Communal life, common effort, community co-operation are not communism.
Communal life, common effort, community co-operations, are EXACTLY communism.
What is not communism is Stalinism, which clearly was state capitalism.
The fact Stalin killed off all the real communists so that he could take over and do something entirely different, does not at all change what communism actually is.
That is the danger that George Orwell wrote about in "1984".
If you let people change the meaning of words, they can control what you are able to understand and think about.
The word "communism" existed long before Marx or Stalin, and have very specific meanings, completely different than how Stalin tried to change them to mean.
But we should be able to recognize the realities for what they are and use the real words correctly instead of the attempt to pervert their meaning.