Communists ended famines which existed in Russia, China and other countries. Communists countries were authoritarian because otherwise they would have been coued. Future socialist countries will also have to be authoritarian. The idea that markets and private property = freedom is ridiculous unless you accept the anarcho capitalist view of freedom.  <br>CIA had their files declassified where they found that in 1981 Soviet citizens had the same caloric intake as those in USA. <br>Social Democrats are not called revisionists. Communists who want to abolish private property but who do want some markets are called revisionists.