Communism failed in Russia because it took one approach, a very flawed one that prevented technological advancement. The main failure was that they wanted every

Communism failed in Russia because it took one approach, a very flawed one that prevented technological advancement. The main failure was that they wanted everyone to work, so when the combine harvester came along they didn't adapt it because it would cost jobs. This would have likely succeeded well, if they weren't trying to be a world superpower, because there's a long history back to ancient China, that the more food a culture can produce with the fewest workers then the more technologically advanced they'll become. Example: Quite literally two people can farm a few thousand acres of corn with modern equipment. One drives the harvester and one drives the truck. Ironically Stalin actually caused the evolution of Chinese communism which survived it. The reason the Chinese did so well is that Stalin slaughtered most of them, which resulted in them taking in capitalists. This resulted in them understanding how economies work, and not hoping an artificially constructed economy would work. Combined into this is the political unity and a use of very powerful propaganda techniques to strengthen nationality. It's been shown that strong nationality increases a persons support of the government. I mean look at the German Resistance, they had such difficulty getting support in Germany because it was impossible to go against Hitler without going against Germany. Largely the CPC has done the same, you can't oppose them without opposing China. The real question in the success of communism will be, "Will communism survive when China's nationalism subsides?" Edit: Can people please stop down-voting something you disagree with, this isn't reddit. I'm merely reiterating something that's been agreed on by modern-historians for a long time. There's multiple systems of communism and the Stalinist and Chinese forms are very different.