Historically, has communism ever worked?

San Marino, sort of

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>>3043404

Typically it starts to do well once they overcome the initial starvation and start to transition to a state-capitalism type system with lots of state-owned assets provided low-cost transit, water, electricity, etc in combination with low- or debt-free loans used to develop infrastructure.

Yea some of the consumer products are not as good and the choices not as varied but at least you don't have a situation where housing, healthcare, food, education etc costs are rapidly outpacing wage inflation. For example in China on one of their largest subway systems the fare has remained the same for 20 years while wages rose a lot.

Ideally you could have that without it being a communist country and without the poorer consumer products and poor safety standards/legal rights but nobody so far has in practice shown how to have your cake and eat it too.

>>3043404
>communism
>tried

Socialism has been tried, and it kind of works a little bit. Not as well as liberal capitalism though, just ask France.

>>3044042
What was happening in Russia, and China???????????????????????

>>3043404
depends what you mean by communism

leninism is retarded, as are 3rd-worldism.

Capitalism and industrialization creates the conditions for socialism and communism. Capitalism completely reshapes society, rips apart the old social structures, making it next to impossible to revert to a pre-industrial/traditional lifestyle.

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>>3043404
with like 5-30 people on a tribal level it worked, but even then they had an elder or chieftain

Yeah it's working in Venezuela right now.