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Guys, turns out NK isn't a brutal dictatorship after all, they're really an example of "Good Communism"! LMAO
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maybe you're aware, but "communist state" is an oxymoron since communism is distinguished by being stateless ...
My impression of the situation is that the Russian Revolution was attempting a communist revolution, and while the Bolshevik concept of Marxism was very particular (as was the Menshevik conception, as is probably most Marxisms), it's unclear what you mean exactly by "actually tried communism" - are you saying Lenin, Trotsky, and the Bolsheviks never had communism on the mind, that the revolution never actually intended to bring about communism?
Or are you saying the Bolsheviks never tried skipping straight to implementing the communism Marx theorized about because they focused only on the socialism Marx claimed was necessary and would bring about communism naturally, and thus they only tried socialism but never communism?
It's probably important context to note that at the time, the Bolsheviks were already the more radical leftists willing to skip ahead and attempt the revolution without the necessary liberal revolutions as a prerequisite. The Mensheviks were more moderate and even more committed stageists, who believed the aristocracy first had to undergo liberalization as Marx theorized before it would be ripe for the seeds of the socialism which would then eventually wither away into communism.
EDIT: I should say, I don't mean my comment in an antagonistic way, I'm just genuinely wondering what your perspective is on what is or isn't a genuine attempt at communism; without clarification, I just assume you mean these movements, by focusing on socialism, didn't directly implement communism and thus were never really communist. (Which as you might tell by now has its problems, but isn't the worst starting place. I tend to think overly dogmatic readings of Marx and assuming his dialectical materialism still has relevance for predicting the future of human societies could be considered a problem with these movements.) Anyway - just wanted to say, I mean this all in friendliness and cooperation, I don't necessarily disagree with you.