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Is there any country in the past or present, that has implemented communism with any degree of comparable prosperity and individual freedom as democracies?

• 21 8y ago
  No country has had proper communism. So there is no compassion to be made.
  • nurettin 8y ago
    No country has had true scotsmen, either.
    • hnbroseph 8y ago
      Every country has had communism that I say has had communism.
• andrepd 8y ago
  No country in history has implemented communism in the strict sense of the word. As for the success of socialist principles of economic management (i.e. common ownership of property/means of production), it varies (there's Norway, and there's Venezuela), much like the success of capitalist economies varies.
• kareemsabri 8y ago
  Of course not. Oppression is baked into the system. It's by design. Marx explicitly describes it as necessary for abolishing the capitalist state and suppressing those who would undermine by attempting to engage in individual market activities.