Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
Now you are showing that you yourself are unaware of what Communism in actuality is. Per Karl Marx's own views (which surely must be relevant in any reasonable debate over communism), the Superstructure of society is determined by the prevailing modes of production. Part of the Capitalistic Superstructure is the nation-state and as such with the destruction of the Base (That is to say the relations of production) the nation-state will be destroyed too. As such to claim that Communism is giving the government all the power is to commit a basic fault - that is to assume that it is a Statist ideology, which it most certainly is not. Indeed you just have to look at The Communist Manifesto for two prime examples of Marx's thoughts on this:
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
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The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.
So please, before you make sweeping generalisations about an ideology, take the time to research its ideas more thoroughly.

NB - this is not by way of defending Communism (Though I find that there is much worth defending in the ideology), this is simply to say that people have some broad misconceptions about the ideology and that these need to be dispelled before any meaningful discussion and debate can be had.
lol, I see we are interpreting the same thing in two different ways CA. As I said, definitions will need to be worked out.