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But China is not a communist country. Actually, most of the country who claim to be communist are just autocracy. The only state that have been communist or an
by maeln 9y ago
But China is not a communist country.
Actually, most of the country who claim to be communist are just autocracy.
The only state that have been communist or anarcho-communist /anarchist for at least a while, was Ukraine (during the Makhnovchtchina), Catalonia (during the Spanish revolution of 1936) and, if I remember, Mexico during one of the revolution.
I might be missing some example, but China, USSR, Cuba and North Korea were always just communist in names. The reality was that they were/are all different form of dictatorship / autocracy.
- crdoconnor 9y agoThe USSR was definitely more communist in the early days when they had workers councils' and stuff. Most of that was disbanded under Stalin though. Most nominally communist countries have elements of communism even if they are autocratic at heart, and that often forms part of their "Lockean" social contract - e.g. in North Korea, schools, hospitals, universities and apartments are all provided free by the government. In North Korea, protection from invasion forms the larger part of the social contract (they officially renounced communism a few years ago I think) and in China, cradle-to-grave protection (the iron rice bowl) has been supplanted by the promise of always increasing standards of living.