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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
Considering that most developed countries are as much socialist as capitalist, I think your point is kind of weak. Communism failed not because people stopped working; Communism failed because the government became a monopoly over the means of production, meaning no competition, and ultimately, economic stagnation.
Soviet Communism was akin to a corporate monopoly, only instead of shareholders you have the party, instead of a CEO you have the head of the party or the dictator, instead of controlling one industry the regime controls all industries, and unlike a regular monopoly, which has a more powerful government to answer to, a communist regime has nothing higher to answer to.
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Poor planning(non-organic planning) Along with massive amounts of death doled out to the communistic ideal at the expense of the united states taxpayer probably had something to do with the soviet unions collapse.
No system ever really fails, they are either working as intended or need to be worked on to attain such a state.