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> One difference between them is that a dangerous concentration of power is inherent to communism

You mean in opposition to a system that promotes the concentration of capital, which is power ?

Or do you think non capitalist systems don't have laws and a group of dictators must be at the top?

> Or do you think non capitalist systems don't have laws and a group of dictators must be at the top?

Empirically, for 100% of the sample size, socialist systems always turned into dictatorships after a few years at most.

That is indeed what US and Western European media have been repeating for decades. It doesn’t necessarily match the people’s experience.

Empirically, there are plenty of democratic socialist countries

For example?

> Empirically, there are plenty of democratic socialist countries

Capitalism + regulation + social safety net != socialism.