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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

wait, you think it's wrong to have a problem with an authoritarian state as a communist?

brother in Christ, most left coms see Stalinism, and it's progeny as nothing more than fascist masquerading as communists, I mean what actual resemblance do they have to a stateless society run by local governments made of the people who live there, and while I'm not 100% with the outdated anarchism, I can at least recognize that the soviet and the sino state structures aren't communist

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You didn't answer my question. Besides to say it's authoritarian (which, so are most forms of communism

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    not really, communism calls for an abolishment of the state, or are we playing the "everything that calls its self X is X" game?

    by that logic, the DEMOCRATIC people's REPUBLIC of Korea must be a democratic republic, the people's REPUBLIC of china must be a Republic, etc...

    or do we describe things based on what they act like?

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