Majority rule is authoritarianism... If you're gay and can't marry who you want because the majority says so, it doesn't matter if the dictator or your peers t

Majority rule is authoritarianism... If you're gay and can't marry who you want because the majority says so, it doesn't matter if the dictator or your peers told you so. What makes communism necessarily authoritarian, as compared to capitalism (which can be, but is not necessarily authoritarian), is that communism is a prescriptive ideology. It stipulates outcomes regarding distribution of resources, how hierarchies are manifested or not manifested, economic relationships, etc. Capitalism is an ideology of systems, unconcerned with outcomes. This is why communes can exist in capitalist countries, but private enterprises cannot exist in communist countries.