Reply #6: The Pope much more than Reagan, but it was Communism itself more than [View All]

[Zynx]

either. The Pope and Lech Walesa simply sped up the process that Communism's own fundamental flaws were bound to bring about eventually. At the end of the day, Communism cannot work because of human nature. No utopian model can work for the same reason. Marx never clearly identified just how a nation would go from the dictatorship of the worker to pure Communism, he just kind of said it would happen. Command economies can never replicate the day to day innovations that a market economy had nor can they provide for the kind of specialization needed in an economy. The Soviets discovered this when their factories were not producing critical machine tools and smaller necessary industrial goods that they instead needed to smuggle in from other countries. In the end, it just doesn't work.