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Most "communist" countries operates under the idea of Vanguardism, and Vanguardism is not gonna work. Giving too much power to a small circle of leadership, or worse, just one leader, is gonna fail, because humans cannot be trusted with that much power.
As for the anarchist variant... no opinion, but can't think of any that worked on the top of my head.
But I think anarchist communisties are gonna struggle. I fear that a neighboring state will literally consume it. I think anarchist communities are too small to protect themselves. (I'm not against anarchism, just skeptical of how it works in practice.)
So I think the best compromise is a decentralized state, direct democracy, ideally, we should have people enforce their own rules, via well-regulated militias. But if there's a foreign invasion, then form into one united command. Something like Social Democracy / Democratic Socialism
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I was born in mainland China, not a good place to live. I heard stories about the stuggles of my parents and its why they have this very frugal mindset even now when they have a bit more money to spend. Whatever happened with the "communism" stuff, that failed, now its "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", aka: State Capitalism. China basically has many of the flaws of America, but worse. Even for all the flaws of the US, my parents still decided to bring the family into the US... so there's that. My mother tells me to not criticize the government (neither the US or China) because "it could bring trouble", she shuts down conversations whenever I criticize the CCP, but deep down, she knows the US is better. She casually mentions the air is better, more greenery in the city (NYC), beautiful parks, better pay, etc... its not perfect, but my parents think its better, I mean, I personally also prefer the cleaner air.The only thing Guangzhou was better was the subway, when I was in NYC, the subway looks kinda dirty and old not gonna lie, and there's also the racism, obviously... but for like everything else, I generally disliked China.
(For context, we moved around 2010)
Also, my grandmother just did the oath ceremony and got US Citizenship this week, +1 US Citizen to the family, yes very ironic considering current events, but like... clearly she prefers the US to China.