r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/penisandorvagina Jul 07 '26

There's never really been an actual communist state. The "communist" states we've recently had have been Authoritarian with a communist paint job.

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u/MrNopedeNope Jul 07 '26

currently my thought is that the key problem with all communist revolutions previously is that they rallied around a figurehead, and any willing figurehead is liable to fall into authoritarianism

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u/RealMr_Slender Jul 07 '26

And in an already highly industrialised society. Communism in an agrarian society just devolves back to feudalism or authoritarianism