>You completely Ignored my main gripe with communism - the authoritarian argument.
You mean the same authoritarian path we are on? More insidious and creeping but bet you life we are certainly on the path to fascist future.
>Is it not more the case that it simply Is not a good model for long-term social and economic development and the population just get sick of stagnating and authoritarianism?
They have been grossly mismanaged by fascist figureheads. The most accurate example of communism is the Parisian Communes. Not USSR or any other bullshit boot coming down under a red flag and calling itself communism when it didn't meet the fundamental criteria per the definition of the word.
Also communism requires collectivism. What happens when any vaguely socialist society is ostracised from the rest or the world and demonised? South America has plenty examples. |