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What you are describing is basic human nature, the tendency of the big and strong to dominate the small and weak. And you are correct, it flies under various banners, Communism being only one. The fact that Communism was an overlay on a culture already predisposed to such, matters not. We are all so predisposed. That, however, is a distinction without a difference.

Communism is a system for incorporating and formalizing the worst of mankind's nature. Because it is all encompassing it also includes the economy. The other examples you give do the same. They all have iron fisted control from the top down. They are also all expansionist. Freedom is the antidote to that and, as such, is suppressed.

Freedom is the necessary basis for free enterprise, which is our economic system as opposed to capitalism, the misguided idea that those who control the money control the economy and the society.

Control is the antithesis of freedom and as such free enterprise and capitalism can't coexist. Those who have the money must not use it to control or they destroy that which they seek, a method (system) for making more money.

Free enterprise also cannot exist without a system of government that allows individuals the freedom of choice and participation. Our system of government and our economic system are inextricably intertwined. So is the system of government and the economies of despotic countries. History shows which is superior.