You misunderstand the No True Scotsman fallacy. This is, in fact, a classic example of such confusion. I have seen it often on the Internet. It is usually bett

You misunderstand the No True Scotsman fallacy. This is, in fact, a classic example of such confusion. I have seen it often on the Internet. It is usually better to set aside these named fallacies and just follow reasoning from lower principles. Leninism is different enough from many other forms of socialist or communist thought that its failure says nothing about these.