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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
none of this is communism either.
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As George Orwell so eloquently pointed out with Animal Farm, communism means two very different things:
1) The idealistic system that the revolutionary leaders promise before they get into power.
2) The oppressive oligarchy that is actually formed after the revolution.
You seem to be hanging on to the definition of communism as #1. This has been promised by Lennin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, and Ho Chi Min. #2 is what was actually practiced by Lennin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, and Ho Chi Min--and what JYL was referring to.