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Actual history would like a word.
Following the Russian Revolution, Council of People's Commissars issued a December 10, 1918 decree requiring ordinary citizens to completely surrender private weapons and ammunition under penalty of long prison terms
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Marx and Luxembourg would disagree.
Also most communists wouldn't consider the USSR communists. Even contemporaries called it state capitalist.
Theory vs reality
I think for any ideology, adherence to theory is more important than labels people claim.
And many capitalists would claim that what most of the world has isn't true capitalism, common implementation flaws are important to consider for all ideologies.