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Originally Posted by lukevanoort
I would like to point out that communism in and of itself has nothing to do with censorship. In fact, at least in Marx style communism, it would not be present, as the workers would control everything and, unless they decided to censor things from themselves, would be free to read whatever they desired. Many communist states' rulers have a tendency to do so, but then it isn't truly communism, which has no 'ruler' class except the people.
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Unfortunately, Marx style communism also requires a utopian mindset in regards to world politics, being that a true communist government cannot have a military or space program (both take money out of the economy and do not return it to the people). That is why "communism" as we refer to it, must also have censorship to protect the government from the people so that the military does not have to be standing and detract from the economy.
An example of this failing would be the USSR, where corruption, the long standing military, and the space program of the Cold War contributed a great part in the collapse of the Soviet empire. In that way, large scale "practical" communism and censorship do go hand in hand.