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I think the thing that terrifies them about communism the most is that the people wouldn't be so beholden to neo slavery via technocracy. It would be communities helping one another, mutual aid. Instead the greediest motherfuckers have sucked so much down that the people are getting wise to it, so they have to grasp at the straws they can. Don't get me wrong, it's working very well for them, but I'm seeing the house of cards getting higher every day.
I think you're right, but they're wrong. Trying to establish a communistic regime was never any obstacle for the elite when it came to turning it into a slavery - it can be uses as a tool and guise to do exactly that, as we've seen many times before.
You're not wrong, the soviet Union has become the scapegoat of how communism doesn't work, but I think that they missed the part that it was the authoritarian regime that gave it the bad name
Yes, authoritarian regimes are the problem, and there's no system that's really immune from potentially becoming one. It's terrifying.