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Discussing about communism in another thread made me want to start this thread. I think it's ignorant to classify communism as just communism when in reality there were many forms of communism with some good and bad. For instance, many look on Yugoslav Socialism (Titoism) as the best form of Communism compared to Stalinist communism or Maoism. There's also liberal communism such as Cuban communism.
Many view communism as a bad thing because it is viewed as the government's attempt to socially engineer the people living in said country or being recognized as the ultimate form of oppression. While this is true in some or all countries (even Yugoslavia participated in social engineering with the recognition of Slavic Macedonians as a separate ethnic group apart of Serbs and Bulgarians out of an attempt to annex Macedonia proper which ironically would have identified as Serb instead since the last 60 years of strong Yugoslav independence and control would have finally properly Serbianized the region or Bulgarized had the Axis won). But not all Communist countries oppressed their people or tried to socially engineer them.
I think there are different forms of communism that can be classified into three branches of communism one of them being the most extreme, the most moderate and the most liberal and free.
Heavy-handed Communism: Means the said forms of communism have participated heavily in social engineering and/or repressed the people heavily
North Korean communism
Stalinist communism (USSR, Romania, Bulgaria, etc)
Maoism (China and also Vietnam?)
Moderate Communism: Means the said forms of communism have had a doctrine of social engineering and/or do participate in some form of repression.
Titoism (Yugoslav Socialism) Yugoslav Socialism was considered to be the most liberal form of communism provided you stayed in line (such as disavowing (or not just participate in it at all) the support of ethnic nationalism) you could travel anywhere you wanted to go, work anywhere too, hell, even immigrate to another country and become citizens. This was essentially non-existent in every other Communist country.
Liberal Communism: The most liberal form of communism meaning the said form of communism doesn't really have a doctrine of social engineering or repression of its people.
Cuban Communism
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