(November 12, 2015 at 11:25 am)abaris Wrote:(November 12, 2015 at 10:30 am)robvalue Wrote: I see, thanks. So does that make communism (generally) a dictatorship though? It seems like no one can challenge the authority of that mental guy.
Regime is the keyword. Communism, as imagined by Marx, was about willingly sharing the resources. Not forcibly.
But that aside, North Korea doesn't even fit that bill. Apart from the collectivism, it's only for the benefit of one person/family and to a lesser degree, a very small ruling cast. That's why I said, if you want to attach labels to something that can't be labelled, it's similar to absolute monarchies of old. The rulers take what they need and fuck the peasants.
My point exactly, you can have a caste system arise no matter what. It still amounts to centralized wealth. And even worse when that concentration frowns on dissent. Same with Stalin, same with the Castro family. India has a caste system worse than America, but we are working to look like their pay gap. So the only difference is that we have more of an opportunity to correct abuse than a closed society that doesn't allow for dissent. The labels are splitting hairs.
