No. Communism is an authoritarian system for controlling production and distributing wealth. Socialism can function in a democratic system as a restraint on capitalism.
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The rise of social democracy

There was a time when politics was simply a struggle for power, especially in the Philippines. Political parties in this country had no ideology at all.
While Murray Rothbard opposed the communist system, he also recognized that Cuba was no threat to the US militarily or ...
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