[gahahaha]

To be fair - half the political parties in Norway like to spit out the word socialist in debates with the social democrats and let the image of Stalinist oppression and Gulags hang in the air. When even the conservatives here in Norway are that immature, you can't expect more nuance from American conservatives.

[m0skit0]

Stalinism is no socialism. I don't care what Stalin liked to call it. Even Khrushev denied his policies.

[mathieuh]

Denying communism and introducing capitalist reforms was kind of Nikita Khrushchev's thing to be fair.

[m0skit0]

Khruschev introduced no capitalism. He simply stopped Stalin's terror policies. And there's no such thing as communism in the whole history of humanity. All that has been "attempted" was socialism. Communism means NO STATE whatsoever.

[mathieuh]

I say this as a Maoist: Nikita Khrushchev was a revisionist striving for "peaceful coexistence with capitalism".

I would also include countries who are striving to attain Full Communism in the definition of communism.

[MaysonL]

Well, the Hutterites practice what could be called small-scale non-state communism. But I take your point.