Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?

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    8 days ago

    Because thats the end result of embiggening the state: The state gets bigger, and the oligarchs just changes faces.

    It was something Marx remarked on later, post Paris Commune.