Talk:Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se/@comment-3006045-20110510013733/@comment-1025281-20110510020841

Be careful of using the term "communist". Communism is not the same thing as authoritarianism and dictatorship. Dictatorship was what occurred in some communist nations. What happened in Ba Sing Se is closer to what happened quite a few times in imperial Chinese history: the empire ruled by palace officials with the emperor a mere figurehead.