Actual communism is different than the communism tried by Stalin, Mao, Pol pot, Castro or any of the self-professed communists......is a hard sell. It is espec

Actual communism is different than the communism tried by Stalin, Mao, Pol pot, Castro or any of the self-professed communists......is a hard sell. It is especially odd given that most of these men were both well-read and wrote a lot about their intellectual commitment to communism. At that point, it's better to start referring to Marx's academic theories as 'proto communism' or 'communist utopianism' .... the word 'communism' already has a tarnished legacy and it is further solidified by the convergent outcomes from each of those aforementioned regimes.