Not really, but take a college course at a liberal college and that is what they spew.
Communism had a history before these two kooks came along. Plato tried it with his Republic and the Perfect Society. Didn't work out so well in 380 BC either.
“Plato tried it with his Republic and the Perfect Society.”
Plato’s Republic was never put into practice anywhere. He may have wrote the work in 380 B.C., that did not make it an introduced practice of any government anywhere; none of the Greek governments or the Romans.
That does not excuse the governments that were in practice at the time - tyrants most often; it’s just that they did not attempt to copy Plato’s Republic.
“Not really, but take a college course at a liberal college and that is what they spew.”
actually no - the published written theoretical principals of communisim/socialism, according to most Liberal poli sci professors today, began in Germany about the same time as Marx was writing Das Capital but before that work was published;
some regard the early German writing as closer to todays “democratic socialism” - the kind of socialism much of western Eureope sees itself as practicing, than to the “communism” spawned by Marx as taught by Lenin.
To us that distinction makes no difference.
“Demcratic” or not, both forms ascribe to the idea of state ownership, or complete controlf (or a combination of the two) of the “means of production” and “social equality” in the distribution of the proceeds therefrom.