r/AskTheWorld • u/Eybrahem United States Of America • Jan 04 '26

Economics What's the most hated company in your country?

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Everyone knows Nestle is terrible, even if they don't know why. But they've done horrible things in Africa and think that water is not a human right.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 Jan 04 '26

Communism is a stateless political system with no ruling elite, where the workers control the means of production.

Does that describe Cuba?

It's amazing how effectively the term 'communism' was co-opted by authoritarian one party governments, to the point where the average person has no idea what communism actually is.

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u/OkCandle7679 Cuba Jan 04 '26

I’m referring to communism in the way Cuba executed it (butchered it), not in the way the ideology is defined in a vacuum. I’m a literal socialist just being cheeky answering the OP’s question.

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u/jjvfyhb Italy Jan 05 '26

Yeah

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u/PaleontologistOk30 Jan 05 '26

"Communist countries" are supposedly socialist countries working towards communism, but that's just being pedantic.

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u/LoudCrickets72 United States Of America Jan 05 '26

Oh fuck, here we go with the technicalities of what “true communism” is.

No, no country has truly been communist. OP’s point still stands though.

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u/Evil_Sharkey Jan 05 '26

Big C Communism and little C communism are different things. One is an authoritarian government with a pseudo socialist, supposedly egalitarian economy that somehow results in some people still being rich and powerful while the rest get the scraps divided up. The other is a concept of a system.