>This is the funny thing. Reading the definition of communism as per Marx and comparing to NK... this isn't what communism was meant to be. Marx was never very

>This is the funny thing. Reading the definition of communism as per Marx and comparing to NK... this isn't what communism was meant to be. Marx was never very specific about what communism should be. Ironically his writings are 99% a critique of capitalism and 1% a vague proclamation that there ought to be something better to move towards. For all of the faults of communisms' implementation across the world, there have been a number of clear successes (fastest industrialization, first spacefaring society, defeating the nazis+++, pioneer of guaranteed healthcare, housing and jobs). These weren't individual successes either - they were successes that the western elites felt compelled to imitate. >The problem is that it is an idealistic social order that assumes one person won't come along and manipulate the masses into transforming the whole thing into a totalitarian dictatorship Likewise "pure" capitalist societies without corruption and with much vaunted "free markets" are an idealistic fairy tale. There are no social orders that are immune from the overbearing threat of dictatorship or that turn off the apparent innate desire for absolute power. +++ https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d5f0af668b46f5682550907a6c749ff5?convert_to_webp=true https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d5f0af668b46f568255090...