The key and central response to the question of communism is to simply understand that communism is inherently vampiric. It requires a host to survive.
Any example of its attempt in human history has required mass infusions of food, wealth, materials, and capital goods to function, and those were universally supplied from without.
The communist state may initially persist for a brief stretch as it cannibalizes, always figuratively, while sometimes literally, the humans and resources within its domain. What inevitably follows is mass death, sometimes directly, but more often due to mismanagement of agriculture, resulting in famine.
There is no true metric for “success” in communism other than being labeled so after the fact. Of course, this never takes place, for, by the very nature of communism, failure is inevitable. All failures, which are universal in communism, are branded as “not real communism,” which leaves open the idiotic and utopian dream of communism eventually succeeding.
The key and central response to the question of communism is to simply understand that communism is inherently vampiric. It requires a host to survive.
Any example of its attempt in human history has required mass infusions of food, wealth, materials, and capital goods to function, and those were universally supplied from without.
The communist state may initially persist for a brief stretch as it cannibalizes, always figuratively, while sometimes literally, the humans and resources within its domain. What inevitably follows is mass death, sometimes directly, but more often due to mismanagement of agriculture, resulting in famine.
There is no true metric for “success” in communism other than being labeled so after the fact. Of course, this never takes place, for, by the very nature of communism, failure is inevitable. All failures, which are universal in communism, are branded as “not real communism,” which leaves open the idiotic and utopian dream of communism eventually succeeding.
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