Do you think that we will see true communism ever arise from authoritarianism? I don't think that is possible.

I think that authoritarianism is a lot more palatable to the imperialists than actual communism would be, I worry that, quite apart from it being wrong to curtail civil rights, by being authoritarian a socialist state is simply dancing to the tune of the imperialists.

I don't think I'm comfortable with a central power having the authority to decide that certain groups don't have rights, that power is too often abused widely.

Thanks for the detailed response, you've certainly given me a lot to think about.

Thanks for sharing, believe it or not I am a communist myself and I agree with most of what the video said. I just don't see how communism can ever emerge from authoritarianism, because if the defence against imperialism is authoritarianism are we not still dancing to the imperialist tune?

Agreed there

At least I know what serious means haha

I bet you are one of those removed thats says literally but means figuratively.

Then they are an idiot for saying "serious question" then, aren't they?

If I ever find myself in this situation I'll spend my last minute poking holes in one side of my body so that every time I get closer to the sun and start to off gas I spin just a little bit faster.

In response to your graph and the question of what changed - antibiotics became widespread after ww2, and medical care in general advanced greatly.

Is there some specific policy you think mao implimented that had a bigger impact than those?

Not to mention the many miliions who died during the great leap forward, I'm sure they were reassured by such statistics while they starved to death.

It's a bit fucking stupid to ask that question through the medium of the written word, no?

People confuse facism and authoritarianism all the time, and people respond to this as if they've never figured this out.

So instead of anything productive these threads churn out:

Omg communist countries are fascist!

actually no socialist!

lol oppression

Vs

hey why do so many socialist states end up being super authoritarian?

hey yeah thats a huge problem, but lets ignore it because west bad