Isn't "authoritarian communist" kind of an oxymoron? 😂 like the whole point of communism is that there isn't a ruling class. I guess Russia and China were never really communist, just statist authoritarian right? I mean, the Nazis called themselves Socialist. They were nowhere near that

[–] Coryneform@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

well socialism has the proletariat as the ruling class, this is true in Marxism & anarchism even if anarchists word it differently

[–] CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The party leaders are not proletarian, but rather become part of a class of privileged bureaucrats.

[–] Coryneform@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

there's a trend towards that, which can be combatted & has been by communist parties. Stalin had a pretty incoherent plan to combat rightist tendencies within the communist party, assuming the problem stemmed from external meddling. Mao actually shared your view in that bureaucracy rots socialism, and that it needs to be decreased as the people are helped towards being self reliant, ready to self manage the economy & have suitable industry to run the country with. that's why the cultural revolution happened, to fight bureaucracy

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