> I think it's clear that no Communist nation has ever succeeded in being the bastion of democratic, personal freedom that it was ever intended to be.
Totalitarian states have all kinds of justifications for being. Most often, it was nationalism and/or religion. Non religious ideologies like communism are a phenomenon of modern times. But note that the ideologies are largely incidental. It's just a psychological jamming mechanism to fool people into letting the totalitarian structure get into place.
Totalitarian states have all kinds of justifications for being. Most often, it was nationalism and/or religion. Non religious ideologies like communism are a phenomenon of modern times. But note that the ideologies are largely incidental. It's just a psychological jamming mechanism to fool people into letting the totalitarian structure get into place.