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Old 09-10-2012, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
But the populace would have to agree to continue maintaining a communist government.

Has there ever been a communist government that once in allowed their citizenry a choice? For that matter that didn't murder their own citizens?

Fruits... government direction of all aspects of society is completely at odds with a free citizenry.

Pete
Again, you're confusing a totalitarian government with an economic system. Purported communism has only been tried in countries that had a history of authoritarian rule. The authoritarian rule came before the economic experiment. As Ben mentioned, actual communism has never been tried.

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