I swear you don’t even care about the answer, you just want to be “right.”
Some might consider that arguing in bad faith, but I consider that a blue herring.
I swear you don’t even care about the answer, you just want to be “right.”
Some might consider that arguing in bad faith, but I consider that a blue herring.
Have there ever actually been communist states? Sure, there have been states that called themselves communist, but that doesn’t mean they are. What any ‘communist’ country is that I can think of is never representative of what communism usually is, it’s usually some sort of dictatorship or oligarchy.
Actual communism would be quite different.
As far as I know there never has been one. It is always Authoritarianism a the Communist mask. I have heard of a few small collectives which ad hear to communism to a greater or lesser degree, but only internally as they still operate in a capitalist county.
Though I could see the argument for egalitarian tribal groups being communist, but that isn’t really a country.
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As someone who lives in a post Soviet country, that’s not even close to communism, judging from the memories of my older relatives. And that’s with them looking back with nostalgia