Has there ever been a communist country that wasn't also a dictatorship?
I seem to recall something about the 'dictatorship of the
proletariat'--which always seems to appear in the person of a SINGLE
tyrant, e.g., Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, et al.
Charles
At 07:01 AM 4/7/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Isn't the very term 'communist dictatorship' in the case of the
>former Soviet Union, North Korea and China false? The label
>'communist' is a weapon, used by the US government, for example, in
>its anti-communist propaganda. These were or continue to be in the
>case of North Korea and China primarily dictatorships, and are not
>what I define as communist societies.
>
>Anita.
>
>
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