Unicorns don’t exist, and they will never exist no matter how buttery some people’s nipples get when they dream of these wondrous beasts.
Communism could be a unicorn.
The explicit purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a communist society. Millions upon millions of people died in the Soviet Union. The explicit purpose of Maoist China was to create a communist society. Millions upon millions of people died in Maoist China. The explicit purpose of the Khmer Rouge was to create a communist society. Millions of people died in Khmer Cambodia. The explicit purpose of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea used to be the creation of a communist society. God knows how many people have died there.
This is the historical record. I didn’t make any of it up.
You said in another thread:
No one else cares about this distinction. Their “actual intentions” don’t matter because there are only two cases: (1) If they were sincere communists, then sincere communists were sincerely trying to create a communist society. And the result was millions upon millions of deaths. (2) If they were not sincere communists, then the vast majority of influential communists in history were not sincere communists. They used the goal of communism as an excuse to take power. And the result was millions upon millions of deaths.
In both cases, there is no reason for any of us to trust this stated goal. Either we’re talking to people who are sincere, who will kill millions upon millions of people, or we’re talking to people who are historically established as not sincere, who will kill millions upon millions of people. It doesn’t matter which is which. The very label, self-applied, is a warning sign: that way lies death on epic scale. People who have screamed loudly about pushing toward their glorious communist future have brought about unprecedentedly murderous results. It makes utterly no difference whether they were sincere or not as millions perished.
The stated goal has been poison. Now you repeat that goal. Regardless of your personal level of sincerity, it’s not an attractive option.
What we have right now is the biggest anti-poverty campaign in the history of the world.
Never in all of human history have so many people been leaving wretched subsistence conditions so fast. Maoist China impoverished and murdered its people, and now proto-capitalist China is undoing that poverty at near miraculous speed. Their politics isn’t good, but the few basic reforms of their economic system have reduced human misery on a heretofore unseen scale. And you’re arguing against it like it’s a bad thing when nothing else in all of history has ever worked better.