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> Communism and Democracy are antithetical

Not to derail the train, but it is hard to take anyone serious on the subject of Communism with statements like that. Communism is democracy taken to the extreme with no bosses at work and no classes in society. Historical implements of Communism of course another conversation, but looking at definitions the author is exactly wrong.

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That's according to your definition of democracy and communism.

To give another example: the Athenians had very different definitions of democracy.

They would probably call our democratic systems of today oligarchies. For them a big part of democracy was given out official positions by lot. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Selection_b...)

That's absolutely correct, of course. Socialism, the common ownership of the means of production, must necessarily be democratic.

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