Existing socialism is not “failed communism.” There are two subsets of the people that say existing socialism is not “real communism:”
The people incorrectly believing that existing and historically existing socialist states are not truly socialist, usually due to some arbitrary degree of “purity” they failed
People correctly stating that socialism and communism are two distinct stages, and that all existing socialism has not yet reached communism.
Socialism as it actually exists in real life has historically been enormously uplifted to the working classes. It has worked every single time it has been established.
Existing socialism is not “failed communism.” There are two subsets of the people that say existing socialism is not “real communism:”
The people incorrectly believing that existing and historically existing socialist states are not truly socialist, usually due to some arbitrary degree of “purity” they failed
People correctly stating that socialism and communism are two distinct stages, and that all existing socialism has not yet reached communism.
Socialism as it actually exists in real life has historically been enormously uplifted to the working classes. It has worked every single time it has been established.