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The counter-argument would be that "real" communism involves everyone deciding for the collective good. In practice it winds up as you describe, with strongmen

• wpietri 10y ago
  Community works pretty well at the small scale. I know plenty of people who jointly own and use land and it works out as fine as any other social thing. E.g., cohousing, shared vacation property, areas owned by extended families, condo buildings with common areas. It has always failed scaling it up, but maybe that's just a sign we shouldn't try to scale it up.
  • zardo 10y ago
    It seems obvious that it would fail. Community cohesion works by each person having a high level of connection with each other person. I'd say on the order of (n*n) connections. Of course, this has implications for large democracies, as well as large communes.