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Communism definitionally does not have a government.
I prefer to imagine the people and the government are one in the same. It's an easier leap
And yet...
Yeah, and yet westerners blasted with anti-communism propaganda 24/7 seem to believe that communism is something which it isn't. Shocking, I know.
No. And yet every single really works example of communism had a central government filled with kleptocrats who stole everything from the workers and gave them crumbs to survive on. Communism and capitalism are two sides of the same coin.
Compare the average life in China vs India, and how it's changed in the last 75 years or so. You can do the same with Russia and Cuba.
One side is getting a hell of a lot more than "crumbs", and they haven't even achieved communism yet.
There is no communist country on this planet, all examples you are thinking about are countries which have achieved socialism to some degree. Most of them are ruled by parties which want to achieve communism eventually (and thus call themselves communist parties). Nobody is claiming that those countries have achieved communism.
And also, working people in those countries have it much better than their capitalist neighbours. There is a very clear difference if you look at speed of quality of life changes, HDI improvements, wealth distribution, or minority rights.
What you mean to say is every people or group of people reaching power promising to establish a communist regime so far ended establishing a sovietic dictature, and that curiously looks like a direct jump to late stage capitalism.
That's not what I meant to say but it's not far off reality. Communism has been co-opted in every case by authoritarians and kleptocrats which makes it virtually indistinguishable from late stage capitalism.
Isn't that argument literally a meme? No true Scotsman and all that
No, it isn't. Nobody in their right mind claim that any country has achieved communism. For now it is just a utopic idea of how humanity could exist post-capitalism.
What has been achieved by some countries to varying degrees is socialism (worker ownership on the means of production via a centralised economy).
Makes sense, thx