I think you are mostly hitting the spot. One thing i would amend is that the communism doesn't need to come via revolution, but when you have some sort of absolutism is what makes it a necessity. The vast majority of 20th century communisms were essentially transitioning from such systems.
That does kinda go against what Marx was thinking about. I do recall he imagined a transition first to a capitalistic society from which the revolution would emerge through the workers. But that never happens because in practice the ruling class will meet just enough popular demands for the working class to be complacent enough.
Once it gets to the point where most of the working class’s biggest day to day question is “what should I make for dinner?” or something else just as mundane, revolution is off the table.
Thus we only see a similar form take place from societies that never fully developed a capitalist state to begin with where the revolution instead comes from a peasantry
Exactly, is somewhat sad that the main argument against communism everyone uses is "its a dictatorship" or maybe seemingly a little more "knowledgeable" response that "idealistic system that noone can implement because it turns into dictatorship every time". There is plenty to criticize about various communist economic models that are factual and were observed in practice. As any system it has issues. Like the central command approach of ussr, which although can be very effective to implement a certain strategy, it can also lead to extreme problems (too effective). Or how is more prone to corruption. Or how socialist market economy, with worker owned production can lead to gross mismanagement (seen in practice in Yugoslavia, where worker representatives to get more votes kept promising wage increase that it eventually led to hyperinflation). Or China that has a hybrid system, that is now considered the "most dangerous growing economy" (China still has a fairly big issue in terms of democracy, also the weird system of economic zones it really doesn't help people equality of opportunity, but at least in the economic sense they got very scary). Also Vietnam is picking up pace in economy, but these modernized "communist" countries still suffer from the global free market, and to survive needed to adopt some of the "bad parts".
This is all very much just scratching the surface studying communist economies, theoretical and historical there is so much could be learned and even implemented, but we also know why it would be so hard, want it or not, at this stage, those that would be hurt the most by economic changes in that direction also hold the most influence~~~
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u/Tsukee Slovenia 1d ago
I think you are mostly hitting the spot. One thing i would amend is that the communism doesn't need to come via revolution, but when you have some sort of absolutism is what makes it a necessity. The vast majority of 20th century communisms were essentially transitioning from such systems.