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[–] Mylon ago 

Communism gets a lot of shit thanks to Mao. Really they were just more of the same oligarchs operating under a new label than anything actually resembling communism.

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[–] Broc_Lia [S] ago 

Well... this is the thing. If efforts to produce communism through socialism (like the USSR and PRC) end up producing oligarchy, then has it really been given a bad name? Or has it earned it?

Like... there are a few communist communities here and there which work ok, but I don't think any of them were created via a political campaign.

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[–] Mylon ago 

If the environment that typically spawns communism is capitalism that has fucked up so hard that people decide they've had enough and start a revolution (which, like most revolutions ends up being redirected) into a shitty form of communism, is that communism earning a bad name or is that capitalism earning a bad name?

This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum and you can't blame the effect without looking at the cause.