You fucking, no-good commies! 

Oh wait...

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But yeah, that's pretty accurate I'd say. Although I feel like a lot of the issues/questions are aimed at people living in the US, so it might be a bit off. 

Communism, while somewhat naive, is pretty much the most humane ideology people have come up with. The problem is that nobody has figured out how to properly implement it yet. The idea has always been that you have to start off with socialism and eventually build up to that communist utopia, but I believe that history has shown that this approach doesn't work. As someone living in an ex-Eastern Bloc country, I can however say that [i]some[/i] of it does  work. People here used to have: free healthcare, free public transport, low bills/taxes, ability to go on (at least) a 7-day vacation twice a year, guaranteed job (and job security), and a ridiculously low interest on credit. This came at the expense of personal freedoms, as well as necessitating the imposing of a planned economy on the entire Bloc. Obviously that didn't work and I don't think planned economies in general can work, especially in the modern world, which is incredibly dynamic. 

Still, communism remains a nice ideal and despite the bad name it's gotten thanks to authoritarians (and people who can't tell the difference between socialism, communism and a dictatorship in the first place), it at least offers the promise that in its "pure" form it might work. Capitalism, on the other hand, had demonstrated that, when unregulated, is inhumane and serves the interests of only a small group of people. Just look at the conditions in the factories/mines of Victorian England or the laissez-faire capitalism in France in the second half of the 18th century. Or heck, the massive exploitation of the European colonies, even Mao and Stalin don't have anything on that when you start summing up the cost in human lives.