The former could not be more philosophical while the latter could not be less.
The “trues” are needed because this idea has nothing to do with any particular instances of political parties that used those labels.
both ends of spectrum are always alike… dualism is an immutable law.
George Orwell got it right.
I feel that if anyone is an actual, working philosopher in the Zizekian sense of constantly touring the world and taking on all challengers, then they will almost necessarily need to be identified, at the very least, as a “radical leftist”, and almost always as working in the Marxist tradition.
Communism, as a/the philosophical ideal, is nothing but a meditation on very possibility of a sustainable human civilization.
Negate everything said above, and you arrive at Fascism. Trump is the anti-Zizek.
Communism and fascism actually have a lot in common than actual differences.