• Isn’t “authoritarian communist” kind of an oxymoron?

    Most real life implementations of communism used an authoritarian one party system. You can say these aren’t true examples of communism, but that just ends up sounding like cope unfortunately.

    • ATGM 🚀
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      251 year ago

      None of those states ever gave economic or political power to the working classes.

    • JustEnoughDucks
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      101 year ago

      Fair point. Though so far, there hasn’t really been any system at all that didn’t lead to genocide and/or class based opression. From monarchs to feudal Lords to capitalist oligarchies and communist dictators, terrible people always rise to the top.