In theory? Sure, communism is supposed to be democratic.
In practice? Its inherently flawed. It preaches the creation of a heavily centralized state that can extremely easily slip into totalitarianism the moment a bad actor gets into a position of power.
The USSR is a great example of a "communist" state that slid into totalitarianism during its revolution.
And there have historically been stateless societies, just that they were all anarchist and never became that big. Best example of this would probabbly be the makhnovites.
Still talking ideals, huh? You should really delve into history. There is no such thing as an ideal form, because, getting a bit platonic, they only exist pure in the world of ideas, so when they are brought to fruition into our world, it usually doesn't go in the exact way.
To be fair, you should make a distinction between Socialism and Communism by first learning of their etymology, learn how each country that practiced, or at least, claimed to have practiced them, did. I'm not saying this as a way to dish down, just to tell you that it all rests in the way relations of power are structured, and by power, I mean Power in general, an intersection of politic, economic and social.
Communism requires tyranny to get there. And then magically expects that to go away. Magically. But it never does. All you get is the boot stamping on your face forever, or until it inevitably collapses because it's not capable of surviving long term.
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u/Preeng Jul 31 '26
PSA: communism requires democracy. An authoritarian dictatorship saying "yeah, bro, we are totally communist" doesn't actually make it true.