First off, let’s define communism. It’s when the state controls the resources and evenly distributes the resources (excluding anarcho-communism where there is no state). In late Russian forms of communism, the state takes a higher amount of resources for itself, creating corruption and imbalance. This greedy authoritarianism ruins the idea of communism. When speaking about communism, we start with Marxism, but there are many offshoots like Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism, Trotskyism, etc. no form of communism is exactly the same. You can’t look at any example and say that is true communism. But if you look at true communism, you start at Marxism, and Marxism hasn’t been tried. Communism is utopian, but authoritarianism has ruined it.
A great idol to look up to when talking about communism is Ernesto “Che” Guevara. He was a revolutionary that helped overthrow Cuba and some Latin American countries. He wasn’t authoritarian or corrupt, just helped the people overthrow capitalist oligarchs in the name of the proletariat. In my opinion, Trotskyism and a permanent revolution is the best way to achieve communism.
In communism, the government wouldn’t have any purpose but to distribute resources, give health care, etc. In America, there is so much of a bias against economic leftism due to Cold War propaganda. But the government should socialize healthcare and increase the minimum wage. So to sum all this up, communism works, socialism doesn’t really work as well, communism works best when the whole world is communist, the US should try and socialize healthcare and increase the minimum wage, there are many offshoots of communism, and true communism hasn’t been tried. I tried to keep this as short as I could.
