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A totalitarian command economy is not a part of communist philosophy. It is however an interpretation by such people as lenin. But he was not interested in communism, he was interested in control and dictatorship by an elite group. Which is not communism.
Your argument could also be made for capitalism. In fact your own american history demonstrates such a lack of freedom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act_trials_of_Communist_Party_leaders
There's nothing "totalitarian" nor "command" about a capitalist economy.
It is neither ideology that is the cause of such suppression of freedom. It is people who are in power and afraid of loosing it that is the cause.
The suppression of such freedom is inevitable, for reasons I already stated. Dissent is fatal to both socialism and communism.
In any case, the best you're saying is that "communism isn't the problem, communists are." No reason the same such argument can't be applied to any criticism, small or gross, you want to levy at "capitalism."