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Honestly I’m looking at this and questioning if you can call it communism since it deviates a lot from what that would really be. Central control and no worker control? No dissent and individual rights? Force and repression vs collective action? Seems very authoritarian instead of communist
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It has long been debated whether “war communism” represented an actual economic policy in the proper sense of the phrase, or merely a set of measures intended to win the civil war.4(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_communism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWerth2013[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_January_2020]]<sup_class=“noprint_Inline-Template_“_style=“white-space:nowrap;”>[[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|<span_title=“This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears. (January_2020)“>page needed]]]-4)
✏️ Yeah, this is what I’m wondering as well. When survival is on the line, these don’t look like the ideals of communism as much as they look like tactics to win a war, at the cost of the people. 🔗 View Highlight
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The deadly Russian famine of 1921–22, which killed about five million people, was in large part triggered by Vladimir Lenin’s war communism policies, especially food requisitioning