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Your should fear totalitarianism, not communism. Soviet Union was totalitarian state, but there was (and there are) many other bloody totalitarian states, which
by citrin_ru 10y ago
Your should fear totalitarianism, not communism. Soviet Union was totalitarian state, but there was (and there are) many other bloody totalitarian states, which don't used communism as ideology.
- mamon 10y agoTrue, not every totalitarianism is communism, but, as Leszek Kołakowski proved in "Main Currents of Marxism" monography, totalitarism is deeply ingrained in communism ideology. Every single country that was ruled by communists long enough ended up being totalitarian regime. There are no known examples of country being democratic and communist at the same time.
- mindslight 10y agoNominal democracy and nominal communism didn't exist in the same country because they were each belief systems of different empires. The ideas themselves are certainly compatible, both being just different takes on collectivism.