Comment by defrost
6 days ago
unlikely given there are no real examples of actual real communist states.
To be clear, the classic example of Cold War Russia and the USSR - their founders were clear that it wasn't communism .. just an "interim socialist phase" on the path to communism.
Still just authoritarian rule with an excess of epaulettes, braid, and big hats.
I'm not pro communism (which ever book version), nor a fan of the USSR, North Korea, the Mao revolution, etc - but real communism appears to be as rare as real capitalism.
The big problem seems to be broligarchies - small elite groups bullshitting everybody else from their seats of power.
i guess it goes to say, a system is only as good as the people running it and all that