>But please, the Cuba example is nuts. I think you're asking for a definition of functioning that is above what reality can offer. In Cuba, the government cont

>But please, the Cuba example is nuts. I think you're asking for a definition of functioning that is above what reality can offer. In Cuba, the government controls agriculture, and there isn't any mass starvation right now. That's a functioning system, at least - not every communist government can avoid mass starvation, and in fact most of them have periods of it.