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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by copsarebastards on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:23PM (#9507600)
You seem to have conflated communism, an economic system, with totalitarianism, a system of government.

There are plenty of working socialist republics, and democratic communes are alive and well (albeit on a smaller scale).

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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by wordbank on Thursday May 07, 2015 @10:13PM (#9509653)
Communism is a philosophy in the first place. It leads to a certain type of governing and managing economy. On practice it also lead into a totalitarian state every single time.
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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by copsarebastards on Friday May 08, 2015 @07:53AM (#9511022)
Communes and kibbutzes are almost universally democratically governed, so no it does not lead to a totalitarian state every time. That's a ridiculous claim.
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Re:The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies by wordbank on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:32AM (#9511591)
Why do kibbutzim belong to communism? Communism is based on works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. You can't just attach a "communist" tag on every commune that has shared property.
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