Hobdog, TheWobble, how can you talk about Communism without having a slightest idea of what it really is? You use this word incorreclty, mix Communism and communists, it's like a dishwasher talking about computers saying that all PC users are hackers.
Unfortunately, very few people here know what was going on in USSR until 1991, and I doubt that anyone at all knows what goes in China now. The only thing I can say is that it's very different from Soviet "developed socialism".
To define my position: I don't support communists, but I do believe that Humanity will finaly come to Communism, not by controlled social "engineering" or "surgery", but as a result of technological progress.
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With respect,
Pavel Pavlov,
Commissar 25th IAP WB VVS