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Isn't this kinda true of most politically-associated labels? Communism, socialism, capitalism, egalitarianism, progressivism... they can all be thought of as general ideas, but when someone actually uses them, they could be referring to a more specific concept, or twisting the idea a bit, or referring to a specific person's definition of the idea and its kinda hard to know how to interpret it...
Nobody says shit like "communists want community" or "egalitarians love eagles." But that's constantly happening for conservatism. People will bend over backwards making up what reeeeal conservatives must surely want... in complete denial of what the visible super-duper-majority of self-identified conservatives actually say and do.
I've heard stuff like "communists want community", but perhaps we are in different social environments. I will agree though that the manipulation of some terms might be more extreme than others.