[fluxinflex]

Ironically if you work in a big company you are living in a communist state: CEO tells the workers what to do and everyone is following the plan.

Ok, you get brided by your salary to do it and if you behave like a good communist, you might even get a payrise.

Strange how we have communist structures at the core of our liberal, capitalist west.

Edit: it is ironic that a dictatorship is an efficient way ahead if the dictator happens to have the interests of everyone at heart. Company structures, as they generally are in the west, are designed to be focussed on achieving certain goals efficiently, a democratic system won't be as efficient. You could also look at how armies are structured - there tends to be no democratic structures within armies.

[mordae]

That's not communism. Closest analogy would be dictatorship. There are no 5-year plans regarding building residential housing for every employee or a company-owned hospital.

[panarky]

Because the most horrifying thing about communism is housing and healthcare for everyone.

[the_third_wave]

No, that is not the most horrifying thing about it. The most horrifying thing about communism is the close to 100 million people who have already died in the pursuit of this ideology. While national socialism has been nearly universally relegated to the pile of bad ideas not to be tried again international socialism - which is the precursor to communism but in reality the end stage since the 'classless society' promised by communism has been proven to be impossible - just keeps on popping up again and again with nearly identical and equally disastrous results, time and time again.