José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

Re:José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the... by Mediterraneo10 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @12:33PM (#26504455)

The OP's claim that communism implies authoritarian government is likely based on the concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in Marxism, and this is a quite common view [0]:

"In The Road to Serfdom (1944), the Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek wrote that the dictatorship of the proletariat likely would destroy personal freedom as completely as does an autocracy. The European Commission of Human Rights found pursuing the dictatorship of the proletariat incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights in Communist Party of Germany v. the Federal Republic of Germany (1957)."

Of course, Marxism is just one version of communism among several.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletaria...

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Re:José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the... by Tossitto on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:43PM (#26506027)

Seems to me like network effects and a command economy would fall well under the definition of authoritarian.

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Re:José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the... by lucian1900 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:20PM (#26505742)

Even that is frequently (and often wilfully) misinterpreted.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is contrasted to the current dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. It just means that workers are collectively the ruling class in socialist countries, as opposed to owners (of capital) in capitalist countries.

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