• goat@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    1 year ago

    Communism can be authoritarian, though, as it has been in history.

    What’s your basis for this definition?

    • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      No it cannot because communism by definition must be a classless society. If there is a group above others that controls the state, it is no longer classless, and therefore not communist.

      And you know, the name derives from communal, so no communal ownership = no communism.

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          1 year ago

          Generally speaking Marxists and those operating on schools of thought derived or related to Marxism use Marx’s original definition of ‘Communism’ as the end goal of a stateless society, with a socialist state as the necessary intermediate point. This unfortunately gets muddled when people say “I’m a Communist” (meaning I’m forming a socialist state to ACHIEVE communism) and just end up forming a socialist (or ‘socialist’) state.