Revelations about Pseudo Communism

Just yesterday, North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il passed away: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16261060

In comments of similar articles, you would often see people denouncing him, for example: "Good riddance, you tyrant"(Made up example). But many a times, I often notice extensions to these sort of comments, for example: "Good riddance, to this communist tyrant". That's where people begin to step the line of ignorance.

As a social democrat, I think people don't seem to understand, or even have the very basic knowledge of what communism is. Many of the "Communist" countries in the world, i.e. Soviet, China, Vietnam and North Korea, are nothing but pseudo-socialist countries run by fascist regimes.

Communism, as anyone should be able to derive from its name, is centered on "community". More specifically, for a wikipedia definition: Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, stateless and revolutionary socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production.

Anyone can proclaim themselves to be anything, but actions speak louder than words, these self-proclaimed "communist states" are different from Marxist-Communism. They are definitely run by right-wing fascist regimes, and not left-wing socialist regimes. They most certainly do not protect the proletariat, and most certainly do not support classlessness.

For example, The People's Republic of China, they proclaim themselves as "communists" or "socialists", but in all seriousness, since the days of Deng Xiaoping China has been nothing more than a terribly exploited hybrid capitalist state run by a fascist regime. Do you see the proletariat being protected from the bourgeoisie? No, the income gap inequality is glaring, there is obviously class discrimination going on.

Most of us leftists who would consider themselves "socialists" or even "communists" prefer the original Marxist-Communism laid out by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their masterpiece The Communist Manifesto, one of a classless, stateless and equal utopia, not this Stalinist-wannabe fascist bullshit. So, people shouldn't be denouncing communism because of China or North Korea, they should be criticising fascism, and the dictators running the fascist regimes.

If they want to critic communism, they should be criticising the design and structure of it, but not blasting it based on "examples" like these.