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Re:Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism by BigJ1211 on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:13AM (#21249131)
There has never been a truly communist society, they were marketed as being socialist (nazi party) or as communist (lenin and mao). None of those were what they claimed to be at all, or at best a corrupted version of what they were supposed to be.

See: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-7/cpml-ussr.htm

So there hasn't been any communism that turned into fascism, as there hasn't been any communist society. Most of the misconceptions about communism stem from post-WW2 propaganda, which boils down to "Capitalism = good, Communism = bad". (at least on western side of the iron curtain)

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Re:Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism by TheOtherHobbes on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:46AM (#21249541)
This isn't even close to being historically true, and repeating it over and over doesn't make it so.
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