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Accolon posted...

Having an authoritarian Communist state makes no sense, communism is, by definition, stateless.

I think if needs a different name.

While that's pretty true of the authoritarian part, it's only sort of true for the rest. You'll always need some sort of administrative hierarchy to operate the system. Someone has to map out and plan where funding and resources come from and where they are allotted.

Smaller communities (like an actual commune or something) can get away with being much less bureaucratic in that regard because they have a lot less people to take care of and coordinate with. A full-size country would never be able to adequately operate without some form of government administration running, and that administration would come to a standstill if literally every single thing had to be coordinated on directly with every person (or small communal body) in the whole country.

That's the reason realistic solutions are usually some type of sensible middle ground. In the case of a large-scale communist state, that middle ground would likely have to involve having some kind of democratically-elected state and local governments who then create and administer social welfare programs but are also directly beholden to the people at large.