[a speech bubble comes from the left]
Would you please consult the evil chart
[a hand, also coming from the left, is holding a document that reads]
HOW EVIL IS COMMUNISM?
[a graph shows EVIL LEVELS sharply rising once Before communism becomes After communism]
[below the graph, a drawing of a smiling bald eagle is surrounded by the USA and confederate flag]
STUDY SPONSORED BY THE PATRIOT EAGLE INSTITUTE
Methodology: vibes
https://thebad.website/comic/according_to_this_objective_graph
It doesn’t help that historically, the major communist countries were also extremely authoritarian.
Like, communism is great on paper, but humans with cluster B personality disorders exist, as do those who blindly follow them, so anything we come up with will be corrupted eventually.
Major capitalist countries are extremely authoritarian, the issue is not inherent to any ideology or mode of production.
Capitalism has the need for a strong privately owned military-industrial complex to protect the assets of its ruling class. This complex needs to sell weapons to sustain itself financially, so violence, war, repression, imperialism, colonialism are natural consequences of capitalism and don’t even need any “personality disorders” to happen.
“But authoritarian communism happened” gets an “eh ok sure whatever” from me given the state of the capitalist world, only a few elites within the imperial core are living a life free of authoritarianism right now (and that’s only because they don’t really notice it).