The Nuclear Fist wrote:Chinese Regions wrote:And how large were their communities?
I'd imagine they were fine.And compare that to the populations and size of superpowers like the USSR, the USA and China, you think communism could wok on nations that size of those?
Communism requires the demolishing of the state and central authority. Besides some form of fading abstract idea of national unity, those nations would cease to exist.
I'd imagine communism working on small communes, like how anarchism worked in Revolutionary Catalonia, but unless you're the size of Monaco, Liechtenstein or Luxembourg, I can't see communism and anarchism working on such a large scale. Besides, the nations would probably continue existing, they would just be really small (let's say about the size of Catalonia, somewhere around that), and they would be collectively organized. I can imagine a sort of "World Committee for Communes" existing, but I honestly can't imagine countries the size of Russia switch to anarchism/communism that fast. Besides, even a country the size of the Netherlands/Belgium already can't become anarchist, they are already too big to be organized like anarchism, it would require extreme decentralization to the point where the country almost becomes a loose confederation of countries instead of an actual solid country.
As for the question; I'd rather go for Hitler and his Hitlerian followers. Even though most of the German people "loved" Hitler in some way or another, I can imagine them (and especially the Jews) living in a state of perpetual fear. Not that this wasn't the case during Stalin and the Great Purge, but Hitler liked going extremely massively aggressive against people he didn't like..something that caused 25.000 excess deaths.