Not greedy! We want to produce and provide for our family. Money is a motivating factor because in a Capitalistic society it shows accomplishment. I work hard, provide better for my family. That is all I want, I want my success to bring them success and my failure to cause me to get back up. What incentive do I have to succeed if it doesn't matter?

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

Communism sucks.. its been tried again and again and all it does is fail! People love to say 'oow we can't do it because were all to greedy! boo hoo!' thats not the reason at all! people hate communism because they also hate living in (*)(*)(*)(*)ty, disease filled poverty! It sucks, love doesn't make the world go round money does learn to live with it!

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Left sucks! so visit our new group! Obama is a Joke!

I'm not saying greed is a bad thing... Perhaps it was bad wording on my part... Communism doesn't work because it's human instinct to... survive in the best standards possible?

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"It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears." - Marcus Porcius Cato

“I am an extreme moderate... I believe anyone not in favor of moderation should be castrated." - Benjamin Franklin, HBO's "John Adams"

Can I be the Commissioner of Pizza in the new dictatorship?

You will have to apply with our new ruler BillyBob, but I could see that as a valuable position.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

Umm... You guys can have that... As long as I get General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States's Central Committee...

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"It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears." - Marcus Porcius Cato

“I am an extreme moderate... I believe anyone not in favor of moderation should be castrated." - Benjamin Franklin, HBO's "John Adams"

I call General Secretary of the Western Hemisphere.

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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises

Then I call promotion! General Secretary of the World... (*)(*)(*)(*)(*).

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"It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears." - Marcus Porcius Cato

“I am an extreme moderate... I believe anyone not in favor of moderation should be castrated." - Benjamin Franklin, HBO's "John Adams"

But that would be BillyBob. You can have the Eastern Hemisphere, I guess...

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"It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary"

-- Ludwig von Mises

Back to the original question The original idea has kinda been beasted, but anyway

Marx saw that the advent of ‘Communism’ must be preceded by human emancipation, therefor a true community would not require man to accept alien powers, but only to exercise his natural ones. In his early writings he wrote “Human emancipation will only be complete when the real individual man has absorbed into himself the abstract citizen; when as an individual man, in his everyday life, in his work, and in his relationships, he has become a species-being; and when he has recognised and organised his own powers (forces propres) as social powers so that he no longer separates this social power from himself as political power.”

This concept of human emancipation has proved the stumbling block for Marxism. The image created by various propaganda machines over the years has been of an enthusiastic population, keen to bring about the ‘ideal society’. In reality however, the theoretical position of like-mindedness and total harmony, has never been reached, not even in the oldest communist countries.

If it had worked why did Solidarity and Charter 77 exist? why do ppl leave Cuba for the U.S?

Perhaps the vague part of Marx’s writing s was how the change from feudalism to communism would occur, we know that in the Paris ‘critique’ he stated that the working class were destined to lead mankind to the ‘good society’ as he called it. The collapse of capitalism has always been seen as a sudden event, but the implications by Marx was that of a slow revolution moving through several epochs until transformation could be complete.

In reality with the breakdown of class structure and the advent of sufferage, the working class have no real reason to revolt.

Funnily enough the U.S system is probably closer to the original concepts of communism than Mao Zedong thought.