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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're mixing socialism and communism. Going from here, you see more than two options what make it a non-binary issue.

Communism itself has multiple variations. What we saw until today with fever exceptions wasn't communism either. It was dictatorship using communism. At the beginning, they may believe in the ideology but once in power, they took another path.