• Fawxhox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You didn’t answer my question. Besides to say it’s authoritarian (which, so are most forms of communism

    • orrk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      not really, communism calls for an abolishment of the state, or are we playing the “everything that calls its self X is X” game?

      by that logic, the DEMOCRATIC people’s REPUBLIC of Korea must be a democratic republic, the people’s REPUBLIC of china must be a Republic, etc…

      or do we describe things based on what they act like?