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> The fact that the official government representatives of the whole world agree on the definition means that’s the definition.

It seems you misunderstood. That they did not agree on the definition is part of my point. They only agree on the word, to mean opposite things (the US meant dystopia, the USSR meant [on their way to] utopia.) In any case, it's just an example. See my other[1] comment for clarification of the general point.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33482679



In both cases they agreed in a clear and understandable way.

They agree the word means “the system of government and economics currently being practiced in the Soviet Union and affiliated countries”

Your assertion that the USSR should not be referred to as communist is incorrect. The relevant parties agree that it should, definitionally.

Asking a fact checking system to produce an alternate result isn’t a reasonable expectation.


> They agree the word means “the system of government and economics currently being practiced in the Soviet Union and affiliated countries”

No, neither had that definition for the word "communism" and as I said, it's beside the point, which you seemed to have missed even if that were true.


Meaning is use. And people neither think in definitions nor learn language through definitions (there is a reason dictionaries usually provide examples and use cases), it is an entirely artificial construct with limited use.




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