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In theory? Maybe. In the real world those traits have been present every time.
by andrenth 8y ago
In theory? Maybe. In the real world those traits have been present every time.
- RugnirViking 8y agoThose things are also present in lots of places that are not at all communist. Correlation does not imply causation. It also doesn't mean they are literally the same thing. Consider zimbabwe or libya or syria - they all have these things and I don't imagine you consider them all communist.
- andrenth 8y agoWell, Mugabe was a Marxist. Gaddafi's government was the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya". I don't know if Assad has any ideology, but his party is the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and he has been supported by Venezuelan and Nicaraguan dictators, Algeria's National Liberation Front, South Africa's ANC, etc.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> In the real world those traits have been present every time. No, they haven't. There's a whole lot of places that have had socialism will without any of them (and lots of non-socialist regimes with all of them.)