Reply #54: Hard to say [View All]

[Astarho]

Communism failed because the workers were still raised in system of greed driven capitalism. To simply take power from the owners and give it to the workers without any other kind of adjustment will end up with, essentially what they got.

Communism will work when techology catches up with it. Someday, we have nanotechnology or replication technology a la Star Trek (which was essentially a communist society BTW) as well as unlimited renewable energy. When that happens things would lose their value, and we no longer have the need to work for them. Then where will we be? Probably not what Marx described, but something he might recognize.