Unlike some people I do understand history and the recorded history of these revolutions and dont believe “Marxism has never been tried.” Russia is a whole clusterfuck I don’t want to get into but with Mao it can be a genuine Marxist revolution, or Maoist if we want to be pedantic. Through the early civil war I would consider it a true revolution. Until the time of the long march and reconstruction of the red army, after that point it goes totalitarian. After the great leap forward it becomes capitalist.

I may have worded my first bit wrong, Marxism is the overall process, the transition of revolution to socialism, and then socialism to communism. In this way Socialism and Communism are the offshoots or subcategories of Marxism. The problem lies in the transition from Revolution to Socialism, never once has this process happened that could then lead to Communism, only totalitarianism and then economic ruin.