I see that you're sticking true to form. You apparently have a peculiar definition for "backing up what you say" because for the rest of us simply making assertions which affirm your argument doesn't count as "backing up what you say."
I'm happy to leave the "true Communism has never been tried" & "true Nazism has never been tried" and "The moon landings were fake" positions unchallenged. You go right ahead and keep being you, comrade.
So you're not even going to challenge, then what the feck is the point of being on a debate forum? Just so you can tell people you're laughing? Intellectual? No, moronic? More than likely.
So how was the USSR Communist? How is North Korea Socialist? How is China Communist? Come on, you laugh at it, but I bet you don't even know what these terms mean.
communism - Dictionary definition and pronunciation - Yahoo Education
com·mu·nism
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- A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
- Communism
- A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
- The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat.
Collins English Dictionary Always Free Online
- advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community
- any social, economic, or political movement or doctrine aimed at achieving such a society
- (usually capital) a political movement based upon the writings of Marx that considers history in terms of class conflict and revolutionary struggle, resulting eventually in the victory of the proletariat and the establishment of a socialist order based on public ownership of the means of production See alsoMarxism, Marxism-Leninism, socialism
- (usually capital) a social order or system of government established by a ruling Communist Party, esp in the former Soviet Union
- (often capital) (mainly US) any leftist political activity or thought, esp when considered to be subversive
- communal living; communalism
Communism - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
"
Communism (from
Latincommunis – common, universal)
[1][2] is a socioeconomic system structured upon
common ownership of the
means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money,
[3][4] and the
state; as well as a social, political and economic ideology and movement that aims to establish this social order. The movement to develop communism, in its
Marxist–Leninistinterpretations, significantly influenced the history of the 20th century, which saw intense rivalry between the states which claimed to follow this ideology and their enemies."
So the first point here is, there are plenty of definitions of what Communism is.
"In modern usage, the word "communism" is still often used to refer to the policies of past and present self-declared socialist governments typically comprising
single-party states wherein the country's
vanguard party is governing the state exclusively, operating
centrally planned economies and a state ownership of the
means of production. A significant sector of the modern communist movement alleges that these states never made an attempt to transition to a communist society, while others even argue that they never achieved a legitimate socialism, often arguing that they established instead
state capitalism. "
Communism comes from the word "common", "communal"
"In the schema of
historical materialism and
dialectical materialism (the application of
Hegelian dialectic to historical materialism), communism is the idea of a free society with no division or alienation, where the people are free from oppression and scarcity. A communist society would have no governments or class divisions."
So, a Communist society would have no government. Did the USSR and does China have government? Clearly they did/do.
Class division? Yes, certainly the politicians were at the top and pounded down on those below. In China the leadership have their own farms with food that is produced without killer chemicals, unlike the other people. Clearly China has a class system, based on, like the USA, MONEY. People love to show their money off, love to be better than those at the bottom of the pile, etc etc.
Were women treated differently in the USSR and China? Yes.
Were people free from oppression? Clearly no. China is oppressing various groups.
I'm struggling to find anything that suggests either of these two are Communist.
The problem you have is that the US redefined Communism to be "whatever the hell the USSR is" and you just accept this, without any real understand of what Communism is.
I bet you don't actually know much about the workings of the USSR, China under Mao or now, and North Korea, so.......
You keep laughing.