> but that's not guaranteed at all. In communist countries if you were very high in the political apparatus, then you could literally kill someone with witnesse

> but that's not guaranteed at all. In communist countries if you were very high in the political apparatus, then you could literally kill someone with witnesses, and walk free. Without a trial. This is conflating economic freedom with rule of law. Apparatchiks of the Pinochet regime were free to kill and torture people without fear, that doesn't make it communist.