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Questions on Communist theory and the politics of Communist states

Communism is an economic theory and totalitarian ideology and model of government that advocates abolition of class and private property, to be replaced with collective ownership of capital. It was developed by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and several other variants. It is associated with the political left and opposed to .

Communist states are one-party authoritarian states that use central planning as their economic policy. The most influential Communist state was the . Current nominally Communist states (which adhere to the ideology to varying degrees) include , the People's Republic of , , and .

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What are the modern arguments for Communism?

If this is too broad please leave suggestions and I'll try to narrow it down. Although I don't always agree, I feel like I can follow the arguments for and from most facets of the political spectrum from the social democrats to the neocons. Outside…
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In a communist country, what determines who lives in low quality social housing, and who gets nicer individual houses?

In capitalist countries it is extremely simple: Those who can afford it gets the nice houses, and those who can't get the social housing (with all the in-betweens that came around). However in communist countries (I think specially of pre-1990…
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How is the Venus Project resource-based economy different than communism?

The Venus Project advocates for a resource-based economy) The term and meaning of a Resource Based Economy was originated by Jacque Fresco. It is a holistic socio-economic system in which all goods and services are available without the use of…
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Is communism rising in the west?

I was wondering today if Fascism and communism are rising or not. I quite easily found the answer about Fascism but didn't find any convincing information about communism. A quick google search lead me to a reddit thread. Is communism…
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Full Communism & rare items/collectibles

In a fully automated communist system with post scarcity no money and goods distributed from each according to his abilities to each according to his need, how would this system address items that could not possibly be post scarcity Example: I have…
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In communist planet with one state, are all people shareholders?

In communist planet with one state, are all people shareholders on all property? Or rather there are two sets of properties --- one of the government faction and one of the non government faction? What does theoretical literature about communism…
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