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I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Not a single communist believes the Russian Federation's structure is something to emulate. We all wish the USSR had never dissolved. Support for Russia extends to its trade with socialist countries, opposition to western imperialism, and the public's rising socialist sympathies:

Communists do tend to support China, as it’s the world’s most developed socialist country. Further, all states are “authoritarian,” in that all states are means by which one class exerts its authority over the others. Communists support the working class being in charge of that authority, all communists (unless you count anarchists) support the use of the state against capitalists and fascists, and the majority of practicing communists support socialist states.