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Yeah, the radical right is faster, a bullet to your head and it is done.

/s

It isn’t anything specific to communism. The horrors human inflict upon each other is pretty sad and telling.

Ultimately, this is specific of any form of government with too much power over its people. That’s a requirement of communism which is why this is often attributed to communism as an expected outcome.

It’s entirely possible in any form of government that disarms and controls its people, rather than empowers them.

Modern democratic countries just move the “pain inflicting part” to far away lands, deemed not democratic enough or ripe for explotation.

That is not true. Communism in its core is incompatible with any other system of beliefs. It must replace religions and customs in order to succeed, it must rewrite history in order to seem valuable.