It’s reasonable for someone who doesn’t specifically learn about Communism to think that. The only examples of countries that claim they were Communist were USSR, North Korea, and China. In all three cases it was actually just authoritarian dictatorships where the elites got richer and fatter while the “little people” starved.
There were more examples than that. Unfortunately, in all, while the unterlying economic model was centralized in a manner like communism, human nature still prevailed to install an authoritarian government on the political side.
It’s reasonable for someone who doesn’t specifically learn about Communism to think that. The only examples of countries that claim they were Communist were USSR, North Korea, and China. In all three cases it was actually just authoritarian dictatorships where the elites got richer and fatter while the “little people” starved.
Yes, turns out that dictators are dictators regardless of whether they use communism as an excuse or made their money through capitalism first.
There were more examples than that. Unfortunately, in all, while the unterlying economic model was centralized in a manner like communism, human nature still prevailed to install an authoritarian government on the political side.