A dictatorship of the proletariat has dictatorship RIGHT IN THE NAME. So of course it's totalitarian.
Stalin and Mao and all the other Communists ruled with an Iron Fist. Everyone hated them. Nobody liked them. And the only reason they were able to control their respective countries is because nobody else in the country except them and a few close friends had any guns. It's just like in Animal Farm, see? Or Atlas Shrugged, which is another historical book I read about Chile.
I mean I think it says a lot that right after Stalin and Mao died, Communism ended.
A dictatorship of the proletariat has dictatorship RIGHT IN THE NAME. So of course it's totalitarian.
Stalin and Mao and all the other Communists ruled with an Iron Fist. Everyone hated them. Nobody liked them. And the only reason they were able to control their respective countries is because nobody else in the country except them and a few close friends had any guns. It's just like in Animal Farm, see? Or Atlas Shrugged, which is another historical book I read about Chile.
I mean I think it says a lot that right after Stalin and Mao died, Communism ended.