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date: 28 March 2025

anti-communism. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Author(s):
Alison AinleyAlison Ainley

Communism aims for a situation in which every individual will be free to fulfil his or her potential, and to live on an equal footing with everyone else. But its chosen means is the centralized control of the means of production, distribution, and much else besides. Anti-communism points to the inevitable tension amounting at times to a contradiction between ... ...

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