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I hate communism, because I was born in a communist country and had a horrible childhood.
which one?
There in the history of the world has been no communist countries, there's been govs that self-identify as one, but they all missed the core thing - no Bourgeoisie
Ahh yes. The goalpost movements
No, that's the actual, textbook definition.
Your shitty childhood had nothing to do with communism, get a therapist
Idk, I know a few people that had pretty traumatic childhood experiences. Like my close friend whose family got evicted from their flat on Christmas because some local official noticed that they had four rooms for two adults and a child younger than three years old and they should have a maximum of three. A few months later he turned three and they would have been within the margin but that wasn't important to the official in charge so he had the cops knock on Christmas because that tradition had to be ignored, too.
Sounds like capitalism
I'm saying that this story is 100% fictional and that thousands of people experience the real thing all over the capitalist world every single day
Was it actual communism, or a communism for everyone apart from this group of special people in government
I'm sure you know it's the second one. All of them are.