• goatOPM
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    What do you mean by inherently authoritarian?

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      The hierarchy of capitalism where holding more money and wealth is authority and power over those who have less.

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        That’s in every country though, regardless of its economic system. For Communism, it’s just the state that has the authority and power

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          Isn’t communism stateless though? And vanguard party totalitarian states aren’t it.

          Anyway, there’s an infinite amount of options which aren’t capitalist to move on with

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            Communism is meant to be stateless, yeah!

            but in practice it has a central authoritarian state.

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              We don’t really know the second sentence. Any central authoritarian state doesn’t have communist qualities and such a state can’t be trusted on what they claim they are