[Justin_K]

Are there examples where communism did not turn into authoritarian?

[wkat4242]

Cuba isn't doing too badly even though it's authoritarian. It's no soviet union, DDR or North Korea. The biggest problems they have are due to US sanctions.

But I think extremes never work. Neither strict communism nor all-out capitalism.

[FFP999]

Is that pertinent to whether or not China is currently communist in anything but name only? No.

[Justin_K]

I'm genuinely curious because all we hear about are the bad examples

[guidoism]

I’ve been wondering the same but maybe we only have these examples because the only successful attempts to forcefully take power away from the capitalists has been by authoritarians.

[snowpid]

or maaaybe communism is just not working.