Apologists for communism and socialism, often say that it was just never implemented properly.
So then, communist leaders such as Stalin, Chairman Mao, Lenin, Castro, just weren’t good enough communists. They didn’t properly understand and implement the theories of Marx and Engels. That’s what we are led to believe.
It turns out; power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Walter Lipmann wrote “Public Opinion,” which was published in 1922. In it he gives an excellent presentation on Lennon and how Lennon violated his own theory. Communism was supposed to be the natural outgrowth of capitalism. If that was so, then Lennon should have been implementing a capitalist system which would then lead to pure communism. Instead, he established a dictatorship. Then, to ensure his version of communism survived as he reimagined it, he had the Mensheviks executed before he died. The Mensheviks wanted the workers to run everything but Lennon decided to run everything from a central bureaucracy.
Here is a free download link.
https://archive.org/details/public_opinion_1312_librivox
They always fail to take into consideration Human behavior. They believe that all humans will act alike in any given set of circumstances. They don’t and will never do so.........................
It is against human nature, and it will never work, anywhere. Period.
Many Catholic types of Priests and Nuns are living a communist style of life, but this is by choice, and it doesn't always work.
You can only impose communism by force, because given a choice, humans will always do what they perceive is best for them, not the 'common good'.