I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

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    Communism=Authoritarianism

    I was taught in school the characteristics of authoritarianism and a couple weeks later, when i was being taught about communism, the same characteristics were said

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      Going a step further, the idea of authoritarian. Every ideology with a state relies on some type of authority to function, as a term it is an attempt at equating fascism and communism and serves as holocaust trivialization.

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      They usually come packaged together. You’ll have a hard time naming democratic liberal communist countries/leaders.

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        liberal communist

        liberalism and communism are literally opposing ideology.

        But if you have a hard time naming democratic communist leaders, that’s largely because you’ve only been taught about the totalitarian ones.

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          Liberal socialism is a thing. But yes, hard to have liberal values alongside the communist cancer.

          But if you have a hard time naming democratic communist leaders, that’s largely because you’ve only been taught about the totalitarian ones.

          I did say they usually go together.

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        But a very easy time naming democratic communists. Even Stalin wasn’t a dictator, according to liberal historians such as Conquest who are experts on the soviet union. Socialism is more democratic than capitalism.

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      You’re right that they’re absolutely not the same, however at a nation state level, I’d be very surprised if you could point to any communist regime at any point in history that wasn’t also authoritarian or didn’t end up that way