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Just an economic system.

You cannot construct a communist economic system on a national scale without it winding up a political dictatorship. The level of centralized control at all levels is physically impossible any other way.

Hayek showed that way back in the 1940s, but there has been a steady crop of blithering idiots in every generation who have to learn this over and over again, usually at the price of hundreds of thousands of lives.

A less-philosophical but more pragmatic person might have noticed that every single communist nation in the history of Marxism, across vast differences in history, race, language, and environment, has wound up a poverty-stricken totalitarian hellhole. But then some people don't believe experience counts for anything either.

But, keep it up. You'll find your own blithering idiots to believe you.

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