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by keybored 413 days ago
We do know what happened to socialist projects that weren’t authoritarian. They got crushed by the US and other capitalist states.[1]

That all socialist projects that were successful for some time were authoritarian is, well, those were the ones who could survive in that world (in this current world). I think there’s a word for that. :)

[1] Capitalist nations violently interfering in other nations is not called authoritarian.