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Thing is, what you wrote could easily be a copypasta for capitalism. Most times people criticize communism, they end criticizing capitalism, largely because they don't understand what communism is.

Capitalism will one day end, the choice we have is whether it will end with the destruction of the human species, or with the concerted effort to shift to a new economy. Communism is merely that shift from our current state to some new paradigm more aligned with a civilized society.

Turn off Faux News, read Das Kapital.

Stop reading Das Kapital, read Animal Farm. Or 1984. Or really any history book about communist nations.

Seriously, it's one of those annoying arguments that, when it fails, they argue 'well, it wasn't REAL communism'. So when it succeeds it's real communism, but when it fails and results in two nations that killed more than WWII Germany on their own, not to mention multiple other nations with massive death counts that failed to reach those amounts, the common man being reduced to an effective slave, an oligarchical upper class of privileged elites, dissenters vanishing in the middle of the night, and many other horrors, it's 'not real communism'.

Wake up. This IS real communism! Das Kapital is the fantasy here. A perfect society that can't be obtained held up by fanciful dreams and fairy dust. Capitalism has problems, yes, but it's done FAR more to improve peoples lives and make the world a better place than Communism; which has done the exact opposite. Do you seriously think you'll end up working, say, a 20 hour work week and then spend the rest relaxing and playing video games? No. You won't. Someone needs to grow that food. Someone needs to clean those sewers. Someone needs to do all the hard labor that makes a society run. However now, instead of choosing to do so and getting paid arguably decent money for it, you're going to be drafted into doing it by the government and paid in being allowed to eat. You won't get some decent house or something; you'll get shoved into some grey block apartment building that will be utterly miserable to live in and will consider yourself lucky if the bread line isn't too long... and this is if you're LUCKY and don't end up in a nation where, say, you're forced to farm all day but end up starving to death in your little shack.

Real Communism has been tried. Multiple times. What you're reading is a Communist fantasy. There won't be some magical society where you're free to pursue leisure because you're free of landlords, enjoying the arts in your free time because artists are now free to create, and working only a few hours at a job you'll love. You're going to be thrust into a communal farm where you'll work until you drop and the only 'art' will be a television with six channels that provide only the bare needs and a constant loop of propaganda only interrupted when the glorious leader wishes to make an announcement. THAT is Communism! The system that considers it's own citizens traitors and/or corrupted by capitalism if they get caught eating a snack roll and actively tries to shoot down balloons sent carrying them from their more prosperous neighbor. A system that has no problem engaging in ethnic cleansing then having someone of said ethnicity run the Olympic torch to try and claim that they're not.