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> or does every country that calls itself Communist fail the test

That's how I look at it, though I'm no expert.

> what precisely would be different about a true Communist country versus these pretend-Communist countries

True collective ownership/Marxism. It's unclear whether it's even possible to create this kind of society without it regressing to brutal authoritarianism, but that's the idea at least.




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