[ExI] communism/authoritarianism

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:11 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> That's the same logic held by people who follow Carl Rogers, who advocated raising children with complete unconditional acceptance.  Yes, unconditional - no matter what they do, you accept it.  Way beyond ludicrous. Nobody could do it if they tried.
>
> My original question did not stir up much response, so here's a quiz:
>
> 1 - would you rather live in a country that was communist but not authoritarian?
> 2 -or in a country that was authoritarian but not communist?
>
> id est - which is more abhorrent?
>
> Number 1 is probably not possible.  No, I am not going to put a 3 - neither, because everyone would choose that.  bill w

Haven't the nominally communist regimes -- USSR, PRC, NK, the various
Eastern European Soviet client states -- all been authoritarian? I
mean by this they don't have a democratic or liberal order in place.
There's one party rule and often a dictator. Is that key feature of
communism or one of authoritarianism?

Would you define communism in a way that doesn't prejudice the issue?

Regards,

Dan
  Sample my Kindle books via:
http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/