Well, it certainly can be if we’re calling nonsense like the USSR and China “communist,” which is apparently what we’ve been doing for 70+ years. Those regimes are authoritarian, and they’re labeled “communist,” so by the “words mean whatever the common use is” metric, communism absolutely can be authoritarian.
Well, it certainly can be if we’re calling nonsense like the USSR and China “communist,” which is apparently what we’ve been doing for 70+ years. Those regimes are authoritarian, and they’re labeled “communist,” so by the “words mean whatever the common use is” metric, communism absolutely can be authoritarian.