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Probably just that every rendition of communism so far has been authoritarian.
There can be no other rendition.
I would argue that an authoritarian state cannot be communist, though plenty have called themselves so.
Hippie communes are a counterexample.
Hippie communes are not countries and are dependent on the goodwill of everyone else around them.
Every large scale rendition, then.
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Goal post was successfully moved when hippie communities were brought up as a “regime”.
The previous comments were specifically talking about communist "regimes," and I clarified what I thought they meant to say. You shifted the framing to be pedantic, unless you genuinely count hippy communes as communist regimes.
Well if that's what you meant, then no shit a "regime" is authoritarian -- that's basically true by definition. But that just means your comment was tautological and vacuous, so what was your point?
Ok, swap out regime for a country. Show me a country where communism has run well (as in not an authoritarian state).
Answer: none