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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
The problem with any utopian system is that inevitably breaks down when confronted with human nature. Whatever "fair" system you invent has to be administered by people, and those people will inevitably be lazy/corrupt/incompetent/power-hungry/stupid/etc. The communists only wanted "fairness" for the toilers, but in the end it turned out that a lot of those toilers were "inconvenient", so you had to slaughter a few million, and keep the others firmly under the jackboot...
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You've nailed the biggest reason why Communism whether dictatorial or not tends to fail, because it goes against Human nature.
I remember reading about the Soviet Union and doctors were paid on the same level as truck drivers because Truck Drivers in the eyes of the command system had a similar value, so you ended up with a state full of crappy doctors.
Communism is also marked by incredibly poor and inefficient manufacturing.
It expects you to work for the good of society, and removes the motivation to innovate and strive because you're not going to be rewarded for it.
Eventually Communism forces the government to lie about the successes of their society to keep the people engaged.
The last thing that you want to do is have a command system deciding wages and how businesses are run.
with communism while it glorifies the idea of the worker running the country, what really happens is the workers fall behind because the government in place sucks at building an economy.