> "The flaw is in Communism, not human nature. The very system you claim could theoretically work - given enough technological development - is fully incapable

> "The flaw is in Communism, not human nature. The very system you claim could theoretically work - given enough technological development - is fully incapable of ever producing that technology to begin with." If you look at how new technology develops, you'll see a lot of what goes into it is fundamental research carried out without an immediate profit motive. Science progresses through the open sharing of knowledge, take that away and the technologies we'd be left with would be far less advanced. > "Fortunately, human nature will always thwart command economies." It is a commonly held misconception that communist societies are dictatorships. A dictatorship is as far from a communist society as you can get. What about those countries under dictators that claim to be communist? I'll give you a hint, they're not. If you want to know what a communist society looks like... http://classroom.synonym.com/true-communism-8904.html http://classroom.synonym.com/true-communism-8904.html True communism has a lot more in common with anarchism than the societies that got given the communist label in the 20th century. There are different schools of anarchism, but if you'd like to read more about it, I'd recommend starting with Proudhon... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon