That sounds really stupid doesn't it. But by the same logic they use to claim communism has never been tried, the above must also be true.

At it's most reductive economic theorem capitalism is the actions of individuals, each their own corporation, interacting with spontaneous markets that the barrier to entry is so low on they could start and fail an enterprise multiple times a day. This capitalist model is only useful in intro to economics courses because it doesn't fit with reality. It never will.

So, communists, since both of our ideologies have never been tried let's compare almost capitalism to almost communism.

One has lifted 3 billion people out of poverty, fed the rest, and lead to the creation of every innovation in the last 150 years, except the Kalashnikov rifle.

Your ideology killed 100 million and impoverished the rest