Nambo wrote:
Has true Communism ever existed?
No, and it never will. There will never be a country in which everybody happily marches off each morning to whatever job the Collective assigns him, eager to work hard all day for the benefit of others with nary a thought for himself. That may be a fair description of ants, if ants had complex emotions and ethical theories, but it does not describe human beings.
Collectivism has now been tried in every conceivable form and in dozens of countries, and outside some small, voluntary religious communities, it has always resulted in slavery, famine, and death. At this point for any adult to look at the historical record and say "Oh, it just hasn't been implemented right, my gang would do it better," requires an act of willful evasion which boggles my mind.