Yo, Communists (part one)

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I have noticed that when the subject of communism comes up our resident communists chirp blissfully about the wonders of communism. However, others inevitably bring up Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, North Korea, Cuba and various other topics.

I have additionally noted that the communists tend to reply heatedly that those are/were not truely communist and communism can't be blamed for these problems.

Okay. Good enough.

I would llike to delve a little deeper in what the communists among us feel that triue communism is. If a communist country were to exist along with the proper set of communist values, or whatever, for OUR communists to feel comfortable saying, "Yes, indeed. That is a communist country."

However, I think it would be usefull to take these things one at a time.

So, first topic.

Would a truly communist state have a democracy? Would it be totalitarian? What would be the ruling mechanism?

Let us assume that we are talking about a state larger than the average turnip field.