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[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We already live in a nightmare capitalist autocracy and people still fearmonger about the USSR.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

That’s because it’s demonstrably worse than capitalist autocracy. Communism itself isn’t a problem, but it has yet to function properly at a state level; China came the closest, but that was still based on stratification and a ruling elite. And now it has the worst of capitalism as well.