Quote Originally Posted by SergeMak View Post
I know at least three forms of communism that actually worked/work.
1. Primitive communism that is the primitive-communal system of primitive tribes.
2. War (military) communism which is practically the same thing as "mobilization economy" - a type of economy many different countries used during wars.
3. Relationships within a family.
And none of these is what the heavily advertised communism (by the Soviets) was supposed to look like. The first one's just a temporary union of a few hunters, that was to ease the food obtaining process. The second one is robbery of private property by the state. The third one's the perfect family, but even if there are those, that relationship never goes out of the family. The human nature isn't really ready to love themselves and everyone else equally, to make those principles work. The way I see it: everyone would be trying to benefit at the cost of everyone else (the easiest way to do that - do nothing and claim your needs to be as high as you can imagine), and that would make the economy collapse very soon.