That comment is 100% factually wrong, sorry. You are confusing communism (a left wing idea) witv something called Juche (a statsist and right wing ideology).
The definition of communism is "a classless society" which makes a government impossible. Communism is a fantasy and not currently achievable, unless we get to a post scarcity society, or somehow are able to turn people into altruists over night.
Juche (most notably in north korea) is actual statism and very close to fascism. Tons of government control, oppression of civil rights, idolization of leaders, etc.
Even lenins idea of "the dictatorship of the proletariat" is not authoritarianism. The original idea was to establish a "council republic" (Räte-Republik in german) which to my knowledge was only ever implemented in the few months that the bavarian socialist soviet republic existed, before it fell to the weihmar republic. The idea is that there are many levels of councils that decide on things from local problems to national decisions, "from the bottom to the top". It did not end up being practical in reality, even though it was not the direct reason that bavaria fell to prussia again. It was too slow of a system and too unwieldy, to be able to efficiently govern a nation.
In any case communism cannot possibly be statism. This is what fascist governments like the ussr, china and prk want you to think to make people support them.
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CarlosShyamalan ago
That comment is 100% factually wrong, sorry. You are confusing communism (a left wing idea) witv something called Juche (a statsist and right wing ideology).
The definition of communism is "a classless society" which makes a government impossible. Communism is a fantasy and not currently achievable, unless we get to a post scarcity society, or somehow are able to turn people into altruists over night.
Juche (most notably in north korea) is actual statism and very close to fascism. Tons of government control, oppression of civil rights, idolization of leaders, etc.
Even lenins idea of "the dictatorship of the proletariat" is not authoritarianism. The original idea was to establish a "council republic" (Räte-Republik in german) which to my knowledge was only ever implemented in the few months that the bavarian socialist soviet republic existed, before it fell to the weihmar republic. The idea is that there are many levels of councils that decide on things from local problems to national decisions, "from the bottom to the top". It did not end up being practical in reality, even though it was not the direct reason that bavaria fell to prussia again. It was too slow of a system and too unwieldy, to be able to efficiently govern a nation.
In any case communism cannot possibly be statism. This is what fascist governments like the ussr, china and prk want you to think to make people support them.