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  • Do you think that we will see true communism ever arise from authoritarianism? I don’t think that is possible.

    I think that authoritarianism is a lot more palatable to the imperialists than actual communism would be, I worry that, quite apart from it being wrong to curtail civil rights, by being authoritarian a socialist state is simply dancing to the tune of the imperialists.

    I don’t think I’m comfortable with a central power having the authority to decide that certain groups don’t have rights, that power is too often abused widely.







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    In response to your graph and the question of what changed - antibiotics became widespread after ww2, and medical care in general advanced greatly.

    Is there some specific policy you think mao implimented that had a bigger impact than those?

    Not to mention the many miliions who died during the great leap forward, I’m sure they were reassured by such statistics while they starved to death.



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    People confuse facism and authoritarianism all the time, and people respond to this as if they’ve never figured this out.

    So instead of anything productive these threads churn out:

    Omg communist countries are fascist!

    actually no socialist!

    lol oppression

    Vs

    hey why do so many socialist states end up being super authoritarian?

    hey yeah thats a huge problem, but lets ignore it because west bad