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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Both Crowder and Shapiro have claimed this. They point out that the Nazi party was the 'National Socialist German workers' party' and claim that's enough for it to be socialist, and then also claim Russia is a communist country.

[–] Klear 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Crowder and Shapiro are complete idiots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Idiots? On the right? Arguing in bad faith? You don't say...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

The USSR was a communist country. A normal use of that term is that a country communist is one that's run by a communist party.

If you mean it didn't achieve communism, well duh communism is a hypothesized society achieved through socialism where the state ceases to exist. No socialists, including the people of the USSR, would think that their nation-state has achieved communism as that's oxymoronic. They would think of it as a transitional socialist state.