aphex said:
im also sure you will find communism is an ideolgy. the fundemental set of beliefs that it stood for was never put into practise.
Congratulations on at least keeping that shite concise.
Communism was actually an socio-economic theory not an ideology. The problem was that people tried to put some ideology round it because Marx never really worked out how it could be put into practice.
So therefore the phrase "never put into practice",
often used among 6th form debating society apologists like yourself, is utterly meaningless as the practice was never set out.
Communism was supposed to be classless yet you always got a ruling class. It was supposed to be egalitarian yet so many leaders were the focus of a "cult of personality".It was supposed to be a pure democracy yet the paradox was that people didn't actually want it so it had to be enforced by authoritarian means.
In fact, one of the few instances where it was put into some sort of real practice was in the Kibbutz movement in Israel.