"With too much freedom comes far too much responsibility; not that users aren’t entitled to full responsibility but, honestly, they don’t want it."<p>Equating communism in general to a restriction of freedom is simply erroneous. A core tenet of communism is democratic control over production. There are two main branches of communist philosophy: statist and anti-statist. The anarcho-communists, who are more liberal than any other political philosophy I can think of, would never say that a freedom must be restricted by someone above.<p>"Authoritarian" is what the author meant. Ironically, capitalism exists to allow for the design of somewhat decentralized, somewhat competitive authoritarian institutions that will control production. What he's describing is more inherently capitalist than communist. He's confused by the fact that the USSR was simply a state-capitalist society just like the US is, only with weaker trust networks.