@Latecomer
A democratic system where either directly or indirectly the economy is managed by “scoiety” and/or businesses are worker owned or managed by the government. It gets messy of course because you can have an economy where technically the businesses are owned by private ownership, but due to regulations they aren’t really privately run. In a capitalist society you could have businesses run as worker owned coops. I’m actually with Zincy on this, the two of us may disagree on what regulations are best, but I don’t believe in an Ancap society.
@Dustcan
These comparisons are a bit dishonest though. Communists like to muddy it by fitting in things like war deaths as deaths by capitalism. This is of course ridiculous since it implies war wouldn’t have happened without capitalism, additionally looking at raw numbers, when more countries have been capitalistic for a longer period of time, simply adding up numbers of deaths is a joke. If you really want to get a look at whether the systems are successful you simply look at the communist countries throughout history. The Soviet Union, Maoist China, Cuba, East Germany and Eastern Europe in general, North Korea, Somalia, etc. etc.
The problems are twofold, in the attempt to establish a Communist regime you set yourself up for a totalitarian regime, it’s practically made to end up like that. Second, the system practically requires oppression, this is why it fails at the macro level. The people not in line with the people’s revolution need to be corrected. Democratic socialists do reject a lot of this, but since we’ve never really given it a run we don’t know how this will be in practice.
Finally, the argument that those countries weren’t true communists is a total meme. You don’t get to define communism as a utopia then when it fails simply say it wasn’t communism because it was bad. It was bad because of the attempt to reach “true communism”.