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Communism seems to combine the problems of dictators (too much power in one person's hand's lots of killings, less arguments about the best way of doing things), and people who are completel sure that their government philosphy is right down to the last detail (or something along those lines), rarely happens in other governments it seems.
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I've had a number of arguements about communism before and it usually ends up that everyone is talking about different things:
- Does communism require a non-elected leader/s?
- Does communism require central planning?
- Does communism require everyone to recieve equal income?
- Does communism require (virtual) 100% tax rate (i.e. govt recieves all outputs for distribution)?
- Does communism require constant revolution?
I've seen people with all sorts of different combinations of answers to those questions call their version communism. The last question in particular (and the first with it) seems to be the main difference between theoretical communism and the communism that has actually been applied (?occured?) in the real world.

Personally I find it (theoretically) interesting to consider whether you can have a stable communist (NYYYY) government with an elected leadership.