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 hmmm thanks for the clarification and the engagement, though i dont quiet understand how a capitalist economy like the EU could ever be labeled communist. why do you attach the communist label to unelected, self appointed comissions? though i know france at one point had communes, most commies would agree that hitler and musolini were state capitalists who weilded the state apparatus to kill a bunch of people and maintain the class structure vs communists who democratize the workplace. do we label the democrats in the u.s. as harbingers of democracy while they take legalized bribes from corporations to craft the law in their favor? it just seems like bad faith to include communist in the same sentence as authoritarian and facism, given communism advocates for the withering away of the state and elimination of the master slave paradigm. i dont know many communists who are pro state. do you? 
 Communism has been the greatest exemple of state control. I actually reflected upon this ideology recently after reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Somehow she advocates austrian economics and you'll probably bump into bitcoiners mentioning her. I heard Michael Saylor's keynote speech and I knew I needeed to read that book. The EU has a lot in common with communism:  the economy is rigged, the decision making completely escapes any form of democratic control and the so called "free trade" agreements are written to favour always the same actors, the multi-nationals who want to dominate their markets and crush all the small players. Consider Staline's regime, would you  call it democratic? Were farmers willingly giving away all their productions for the greater good? In the end, extreme state control always ends up destroying the economy, as portrayed in Atlas Shrugged: https://youtu.be/ZcjFrIMw2sI?si=9UHRBGI84TSd2DpW