What made Communism such a failed experiment?

Answer 1

I think it assumes a lot of altruism on the part of a species which is not well known for its willingness to sacrifice everything personal for other people. It is a system proposed by the high minded and administered by the feeble minded. It puts no value on the individual and subordinates everything to the needs of the almighty (and all-to-often) oppressive State.

Answer 2

The fact that it never actually reached Marx's definition of communism, was the failure. Marx viewed communism as the final historical epoch in which the state withers away, this has never been achieved. Communism as we have come to know it is a kind of state centred totalitarianism, there are only 4 of these states left in the world: China (since 1945), Cuba (since 1962), North Korea and Vietnam. For me the biggest tragedy of the failure of communism is that Capitalism is now unchallenged as an ideology.

Answer 3

Communism failed because of a flaw in the basic premise.

Communism's basic assumption is that Labor is the only element that gives anything value. The Labor Theory of Value states that the value of anything is equal to the amount of Labor that went to produce it.

Under this theory, two items of finished goods that come off the same assembly line have the same value.

It breaks down in reality if one of them is defective.

That's why Communism failed. It cannot be made to work, people have to be forced to pretend that it does.

Answer 4

Communism has never bin tried. people have tried to start communism but it is hard to keep it on track at the start especially when the country has a week economy (like russia). This is why all communist country's on the planet are lying they are not communist because they are not fowling the right path.
Remember this a revolution is made or broken in the fist year
no nation has successful followed Communism.

Answer 5

Communism works on the basis that everyone works collectively, for a collective reward. As humans are motivated by self interest, not what others get. Hence their is no incentive mechanism to work hard.
Think of game theory.
4 chinese men were hired to haul rice accross a river on a barge, during ww2.
At the height of the war effort, they were offered double rations if they could get the rice across twice as quick. This meant pulling twice as hard. One realised if he stopped pulling, and slacked off, the shipment would still make it in target time, as long as the others still pulled. All of them actually came to that conclusion, so when it came to pulling, they all slacked off, and went at the normal rate. Hence the target wasn't met.
They fixed the solution by hiring a 5th man with a whip, to whip those who slacked off (obviously). Anyway, back to your question, communism failed to work for the same reason all the men slacked off - they had no individual incentive, only group incentive. - look up game theory, prisoners dilema game, and that should help you further (try wikipedia).

Answer 6

Communism never failed. made to fail due to corruption and ego . It will surely raise with in a decade . Real Marx theory is to make the common man to realise their duties . The lethargy of human behaviour and corruptions kept the Communism in ICU and can get rebirth at anytime.

Answer 7

Every society needs poverty (lots and lots of it) - to sustain wealth, or to even sustain bearable living conditions.

You cannot "cure" poverty, if you have a currency.

The very nature and value of it relies on a hell of a lot of people not having any - If you start printing more money etc.the value of your currency and inflation will go "moscow".

America has something like 65 million people in poverty to sustain the wealth of the middle classes.

The big difference was that Communism was suppossed to work for everyone, and Capitalism is designed to only work for a tiny minority (and just moralise label and marginalise the people it neglects).

Answer 8

Communism is an ideal. Capitalism is a working reality. People work best when they earn money and do mostly what they want with it.
Communism as practiced is actually totalitarianism. Who ever is in charge, runs the show, and does what he wants, not necessarily what the people want.
Stalin and Mao Tse Tung are examples.

Answer 9

He replace into particularly naive and did no longer think of forward. He lived at a time while maximum of humanity could have been happy to easily have adequate to devour yet now human beings anticipate plenty extra. His entire thought fails through fact he did no longer enable for human nature, he naively assumed that anybody is wide-unfold altruistic the place as in certainty human beings oftentimes seem after themselves and their very own. the thought a Utopian state could be performed with the aid of coming up a dictatorship of the proletariat and therefor a society of the backside ordinary denominator is basically farcical. no remember how sturdy his intentions the place his artwork has been used to justify the main poor totalitarian dictatorships the international has ever seen and tens of millions upon tens of millions of murders. anybody thinks they are able to shop the international while they're youthful yet maximum of use sober up and enhance up. i do no longer think of he ever reached the point of adulthood the place he realised that existence isn't honest and this is not honestly meant to be. without an elite and the urge to progression the dregs of humanity drag anybody all the way down to their point and all of us replace into extinct.

Answer 10

i recently heard that the gov't didnt figure out the economic statagy correctly then had to scramble to keep the people at bay so they were doomed from the beginning.
communism would be ok if greed were not a factor but it is ,thats why capitalism works it gives everyone the opportunity to strive to be the best to get above someone else and prosper and as the cycle continues it is inevitable that eveyone involved has a valued participation