Bombs mailed to Hillary, Obama

[Dill]

(10-25-2018, 01:54 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: This is just one of those things that bothers me. Just because a country claims to be communist doesn't make it so. We really have not seen a communist nation-state. All those that have claimed to be communist have been authoritarian in nature, but by definition the two cannot exist in the same nation. Communism involves a democratic form of governance, which is in direct opposition to authoritarianism. What people perceive as communism is actually just the Soviet model, which was really rooted in Stalin's school of thought (and carried over by Mao) and really isn't communist, or even socialist for that matter.

Funny you should say that. When German Democratic Republic called itself "democratic," few Americans believed them.  But when they called themselves "communist" most people did believe them.

If we are talking about Marx's version of Communism, the goal was not only democracy and equality, but also for the state to "wither away."