• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          The previous comments were specifically talking about communist “regimes,” and I clarified what I thought they meant to say. You shifted the framing to be pedantic, unless you genuinely count hippy communes as communist regimes.

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            7 months ago

            Well if that’s what you meant, then no shit a “regime” is authoritarian – that’s basically true by definition. But that just means your comment was tautological and vacuous, so what was your point?

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              7 months ago

              Ok, swap out regime for a country. Show me a country where communism has run well (as in not an authoritarian state).

              Answer: none

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      7 months ago

      Hippie communes are not countries and are dependent on the goodwill of everyone else around them.