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It’s not so much the existence of bad communism that indicates communism is a structurally bad thing, quite so much as the utter lack of good communism that indicates communism is a structurally bad thing.
That's certainly enough to form a hypothesis, but far, far from proof against it. There aren't any "good" developing countries either.