Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?

  • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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    20 days ago

    GREAT answer!

    External hostility often pushed socialist regimes toward authoritarian measures.

    THIS. This is THE reason most Marxists give for the necessity of authoritarianism in the first stages of transition to a Communist society.