The typical response of the ideologist - ignore the evidence, ignore the arguments - a dictatorship is not a version of communism - and pretend that "practice" is your opinion about what happened. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
No, of course you don't have to cite anything - you just think to know and we are supposed to accept your opinion which is, like the truly ideological, impervious to the evidence and doesn't bother to offer any. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
You want me to prove that dialectical materialism, or historical materialism was materialist and, well, dialectical ? :) Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)