• goatOPM
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    2 months ago

    i believe there is an important distinction between communist and tankie

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      2 months 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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        2 months ago

        that is a good point

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          2 months ago

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