• goatOPM
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      1 month ago

      i believe there is an important distinction between communist and tankie

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        1 month ago

        From a economics perspective there is none. A communist may not necessarily endorse genocide but there is very little evidence to show that communism works in practice. It pretty much is exclusive to authoritarianism. Again that is simply history.

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          1 month ago

          that is a good point

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            It isn’t really my own. You can find paper from PhD level experts who have studied economic systems extensively