"I don't think that a country like Cuba makes for a good data point on anything except embargoes." Neither is Norway a good data point from which we can extrap

"I don't think that a country like Cuba makes for a good data point on anything except embargoes." Neither is Norway a good data point from which we can extrapolate the viability of Communism. Norway has a population of 5.5 million - smaller than the San Francisco Bay Area. It's also swimming in oil money. It's probably easier to motivate people to work for the benefit of the whole community if the community is defined as a small number of people with whom you share a culture and background and live close to you. Maybe that's why communism works occasionally on communes, but anything more expansive requires the brutal application of force to keep people in line.