[ceayo]

That is authoritarianism. Indeed, you have a valid point, except that communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government. There is no difference between a capitalist authoritarian and a communist authoritarian except that a communist actually has a story (i.e. a fairy-tale) to sell to their people.

[ratrace]

> communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government

This is unbelievably naive.

[breppp]

the problem with communism in Russia has been that the minute the economy theory inevitably fails, you now have to starve the farmers, and when they don't agree with being starved you need to send them to a gulag

[0x3444ac53]

Capitalism also has a fairy tail to sell it's people tho?

[dekhn]

Of course. All successful large-scale political movements have underlying narratives that only loosely correlate with reality.

[drcongo]

Very much. It's basically: look at all these lovely billionaires, one day you'll be one of them too!

[nailer]

Yes, when countries move from communism to capitalism, poverty, infant mortality, unemployment and every other bad metric goes down.