Communism is not totalitarian. A Communist world would have no government or classes or money.
Communism ( a classless stateless society) has never existed in Cuba.
Capitalism hadn't existed long enough to fail.
Communism (a classless stateless society based on production for use and democratic control) has never existed in China.
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Communism (a classless stateless society based on production for use) has never existed.
Highwaymen existed in from the 16th century to the 18th century.
Communism (a classless stateless society based on production for use) has never existed and so cannot be replaced by anything.
Original communism existed for the vast majority of human history.
While communism informally existed as different ideological systems of radical socialist groups, communism, as we know it now, was proposed by Marx and Engels in their 1848 Communist Manifesto.
What existed in East Germany was state capitalism, not Communism, as there were still classes, money and wages.
Yes, it existed. What else .... ?
A state capitalist system with a dictatorial government.