Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
LOL! I came across a hilarious joke as a kid, that might explain it:

Q. "Will there be money in communism?"
A. "Yugoslavian comrades say there will be; Chinese comrades say there won't be; we merge these two theories, and think there will be money, but not everyone will have it."
Yugoslavia was just socialist. I don't think it even had communism as the stated objective. It wasn't considered to be properly part of the Eastern bloc, back in those days. They had private enterprise on a limited scale.
I don't think that the USSR, or China which you mention, took them seriously as communists whatsoever. Yugoslavia had mass tourism from Western Europe, just as an example.