I don't agree with the poster--I think communism has been tried, sometimes even successfully (i.e. kibbutzim). However, the examples of communism which capital

I don't agree with the poster--I think communism has been tried, sometimes even successfully (i.e. kibbutzim). However, the examples of communism which capitalists like to point at as failures, such as Stalinism or Maoism, didn't ever actually distribute wealth, instead merely changing the concentration of wealth. This points to a failure to actually achieve communism, rather than a failure of communism to work. Unfortunately I don't think there are very good explanations of this out there. The best I can find is this[1] but that's pretty dense, assumes a lot of prior economic knowledge, and is (ironically) behind a paywall. [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0896920508090851 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/089692050809085...