If you cut out free trade of goods from other countries, force people into believing one religion or idealogy, enforce martial law upon people, and remove worker's rights to form a union...then that's communism, dipshit.
Vince, I was born and raised in a communist country.
What's your fucking frame of reference?
We had goods from other countries.
There was no public religion of any kind, as that would go against the communist ideals of absolute equality of man. Every religion claims it's the best (look at the shitfest we have going on in the world today).
There was no martial law whatsoever. There was a standing army and a tightly regulated police regulated by the ministry of the interior (a KGB type organization) that made sure that youtube videos of cops beating up citizens never happen.
Worker's rights to form a union? - you're joking right. There's no need for a union as the whole country's a huge union. Proportionate wages for proportionate skillsets.
I'm not a proponent of communism, but your definition of it is about as wrong as it can get. Now please, tell me again how you're more of an authority on communist regimes than myself?
Or did Mao take over North Carolina backwoods?