qeee1 wrote:tahitiwahini wrote:qeee1 wrote:communism is not by definition repressive
except when it's practiced.
no, as the repressive institutions set up in the name of communism cease to be communist when they abandon communist ideals.
Not to further the debate....
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.