<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:35 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Before you can be sure, you'd have to actually define the term</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be nice, but then people keep redefining the term. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism</a> gives a definition, but the notes explicitly say that the USSR was in fact an instance of communism, and apologists say "the USSR was not 'true' communism".</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> AND<br>
then show that the folks saying they're putting into practice are<br>
actually making that attempt</blockquote><div><br></div><div>How do you show this, when the people you are trying to convince make an a priori claim that none of the folks who said they were putting it into practice so far actually made that attempt?</div></div></div>