• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    From a theoretical point, they don’t count as communist. They entirely dropped the all-important aspect of giving power to the working class.

    Both the USSR and China, in their self-described “communist” periods, were ruled with absolute power and directed by a head of state. The USSR collapsed, and modern China is about as communist as North Korea is democratic.

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      6 months ago

      i was a little worried there comrade but im glad to see u have a good unstanding of just how great the PRC is, after all what could be more the democratic than the glorious DPRK.