In Bulgaria the system was not working - probably in other communist economies - because the was a lot of free riding or maybe not. Tales say[1] say that let a

In Bulgaria the system was not working - probably in other communist economies - because the was a lot of free riding or maybe not. Tales say[1] say that let alone the social aspects of communism, where 1 guy was needed they used to put 4. Say a guy needs to transport 2000 kg of potatoes. You needed 1 driver, 1 mechanic to check the car, 1 guy to mount/unmount the potatoes and 1 count them. However, in Bulgaria communism felt apart after the USSR. So I am not sure what was and wasn't working. In order to deeply understand the dynamics of a complex social-economic system such as communism you need to stuck to hard-facts. Otherwise you risk to perpetuate myths like: "Communism doesn't work but Capitalsm does". Truth is that every system has it's positive and negative sides. If someone, a government or population, can cope with the bad aspects (say lack of optimization in communism and rules that apply for everyone in capitalism) you stand a chance of having something that works for the large part of the population. What I personally dislike about communism is the lack of freedom, which is not inherently connected with capitalism in books, but in real life whenever applied, good luck getting out of there without a few thousand deaths. [1] My family was running a business in Bulgaria from 1995 until know. I still own a company in BG.