The point was this was about totalitarianism, not about communism. Stalinism was the particular flavour of totalitarianism that is the backdrop of the story, but that’s not the important part, because totalitarianism comes in many flavors along the left/right political spectrum. he had to choose one, and this was an easy one, given the time period.
As we’re currently witnessing, it doesn’t seem like any system is immune from takeover by a cabal of powerful narcissists.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Isn’t it possible that all of the options we’ve thought of are incompatible with the basic nature of a few sociopaths seizing everything and grinding decent folk under their boot?
BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s exactly my belief. Stationary bandit theory is very strong. So the best you can do is a democracy where at least you can kick out bad guys every so often.
ZMoney@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are some exceptions of egalitarian societies here and there over the past 6000 years but more or less yes.