How come so many people don’t like communism? Lemmings told me communism is amazing!
It might just be the totalitarian dictatorship part that makes them leave. Probably they don’t care what flavour of socialism or economic model their oppressor say they subscribe to that matters.
But communism is inherently totalitarian.
That is a false statement. At least if you follow definitions for the two words. If we don’t stick to definitions; discussion becomes meaningless, since we will be talking of different things but using the same words.
Since when it is false?
Mandatory “there’s more than one version”. You might think anarchism is also bullshit but it’s not North Korea.
Yet somehow every version is a totalitarian clusterfuck.
No. That is not an a known issue with anarchism, for example.
How many anarchist countries do you know?
Off the top of my head, 2. One with no UN seat and one long gone, to be fair, but they still exist and are/were sovereign. You can’t say either turned into totalitarianism.
Maybe you could say they would have or will, but that’s just your guess. I could say the same thing about liberal democracy and be equally as well supported.
So what are these magical countries?
Republican Spain and the “Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria” AKA Rojava.
Republican Spain had some communist factions too, but Rojava is explicitly built around a specific strain of anarchism, and is an “administration” instead of a government. I doubt it looks very anarchist in practice, but that’s neither here nor there, and they’re democratic enough the US has endorsed them in the past to Turkey’s great displeasure.