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Communism is a great idea for how to deal with the members of your family or small tribe that is trying to survive. It is great because it works. But the attempt to apply it to bigger social structures seems to create major problems. One way of looking at it is that collectivism is the correct feminine approach to the family that goes horribly wrong when women (in the late stages of civilization) encounter no or little push back to their attempt of applying inner-family politics to the outer world, convinced that it will fix everything. I think it's largely a scaling issue. As a species we seem to have trouble understanding that good ideas don't necessarily scale.