Look at any communist country in history, dude. They've all been flaming hellholes at best, even compared to their peer nations at the time. And yeah, I get i

Look at any communist country in history, dude. They've all been flaming hellholes at best, even compared to their peer nations at the time. And yeah, I get it, "no true Scotsman". The problem is that Real Communism™ requires perfect dictatorial control and we don't have a perfect dictator to run it. edit: this sibling comment explains things a lot more eloquently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34523261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34523261