Communism fails when it needs to imprison its own citizens on a massive scale for dissent. It fails when it needs to build walls to keep people in.
> You yourself conceded that these measures were eliminated and/or scaled down in Russia without outside intervention once things had settled down.
Oh, I conceded no such thing. The Cheka existed until 1922, but it didn't disappear, it was reorganised into the NKVD which later became the KGB. Both changes represented a step up, not down, in ruthlessness and brutality.
> During and in the aftermath of revolutionary phases, there tends to be violence.
You have to break some eggs to make an omelette. This is not something you shrug off as a regrettable but necessary fact of life, it's a huge and important argument against revolutions.
> This kind of thing has nothing to do with economic organization
Yes, it has everything to do with economic organisation, because the evidence strongly suggests that you need to violently force people to live under such organisation.
> You yourself conceded that these measures were eliminated and/or scaled down in Russia without outside intervention once things had settled down.
Oh, I conceded no such thing. The Cheka existed until 1922, but it didn't disappear, it was reorganised into the NKVD which later became the KGB. Both changes represented a step up, not down, in ruthlessness and brutality.
> During and in the aftermath of revolutionary phases, there tends to be violence.
You have to break some eggs to make an omelette. This is not something you shrug off as a regrettable but necessary fact of life, it's a huge and important argument against revolutions.
> This kind of thing has nothing to do with economic organization
Yes, it has everything to do with economic organisation, because the evidence strongly suggests that you need to violently force people to live under such organisation.