Original sentence: Anti-communists argue that the contemporary communist/Marxist claim that any communist regime that perpetuated human rights abuses was not a true communist state is merely a convenient excuse that can be evoked to avoid taking responsibility, and a classic example of a No True Scotsman fallacy
Edited sentence: Anti-communists argue that the contemporary communist/Marxist claim that any communist regime that perpetuated human rights abuses was not a true communist state is merely a convenient excuse that can be evoked to avoid taking responsibility