No True Scotsman and Communism

What is the No True Scotsman fallacy?

The No True Scotsman Fallacy is an informal fallacy where people use words like “true,” “pure,” and “genuine,” to definitionally exclude the “undesirable” counterexample. An example of this would be (copied off of wikipedia):

Person A: “No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

Person B: “My uncle Angus is a Scotsman and puts sugar on his porridge."

Person A: “No true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge.”

See? This was the No True Scotsman fallacy.

But what about Communism?

The Communists (yuck) use the No True Scotsman fallacy. It goes like this:

Person A: “Communism sucks because it has never succeeded and is terrible for citizens who don’t support it.”

Person B: “That’s because true Communism has never been tried in practice.”

No. That’s not how it works. Communism has been attempted and done, but never succeeded. It has always crashed and burned quite beautifully. You know why true Communism can’t exist? Because it was created by an alcoholic who was prone to fights and lived in a nice house, eventually becoming an upper-middle class lawyer. That sound like a poor person who would benefit from this? Nope! Communism is as prone to corruption as an immunocompromised person to disease. In any case, the No True Scotsman fallacy is, to be concise, an “ad hoc rescue” of a refuted attempt at generalization. So when you say that Communism sucks and has at no point succeeded, you can expect the answer that Person B gave a bit above. ‘Cause you know why? They just want to be anti-mainstream, anti-American, anti-West, and pro-dictatorship but hip at the same time.