Not to further the debate....qeee1 wrote:no, as the repressive institutions set up in the name of communism cease to be communist when they abandon communist ideals.tahitiwahini wrote:except when it's practiced.qeee1 wrote:communism is not by definition repressive
but might there not perhaps be a fundamental problem with a political system that has always resulted in repressive institutions being set up in order to sustain itself. I guess I'm not too concerned with abstract theory here, just an observation of mundane reality.
Anyway, I'm not the one who introduced communism to this discussion. I just found it interesting to see that there are still those who will jump to it's defense.
For what it's worth, I don't see how what Dug did, or what the moderators did in response, bears much relation at all to communist ideology either in theory or in practice.



