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Yes, that's how communism works; it's the process of transitioning away from the destructive system of oppression that is capitalism.

But no, let us continue to sacrifice a thousand souls a day to the golden throne to keep the Emperor's decaying body in his permanent state of un-death.

I apologize in advance as the 'real communism has never been tried' thing serious grinds my gears and ticks me off. If this wasn't what you meant, feel free to disregard the following

Yea. Let me guess. 'Real Communism has never been tried'. You might wanna look into those 'socialist' states because they're basically capitalist nations with high taxes that turn around and use said tax money to fund social welfare systems. They're not communist or 'socialist' by any means besides delusion.

The simple fact is that 'real communism' results in tyrants, starvation, horrific prison conditions, and so-forth because it's very core concept is inherently flawed. Let's take a simple set-up.

Assume you are in charge of building a train to an outlying village on the other side of a mountain. You can go around it which will take more steel, or through it which will require more engineers. Firstly you'll need an entire infrastructure just to MAKE the steel and train the engineers in the first place so already the concept is flawed because this means you need mundane workers to mine and smelt the steel but educators to train the engineers who won't be working the mines and will not directly produce any sort of material gain on their own... but let's ignore that.

Which do you, as a true communist, wish to do? One costs more material resources but will impose a lesser strain on the engineers and workers, another will cost less resources but put more strain on the workers. Which is correct?

Let me tell you the answer. Neither is correct. Instead you go through the mountain (saving raw resources) and press the villagers on the other side to become 'engineers'. If any resist they are capitalist sympathizers and to be imprisoned and forced into prison labor. I then proceed to have the 'engineers' tunnel through the mountain while bragging about the great success that the project has been. Falsify financial reports and passenger numbers to indicate that the railroad is a massive success. When the railroad inevitably fails I proceed to blame it on either capitalist sabotage or the local officials or something and ensure the media runs a non-stop smear campaign so that no one ever finds out the truth. Meanwhile I pocket the money and laugh all the way to the bank as I come off as a hero of the communist people when all I actually did was force unskilled laborers into dangerous conditions to produce a shoddy product that was doomed to fail.

This is exactly what we see happening in places like China and saw in the U.S.S.R. Government officials gladly forced what was effectively slave labor to work on shoddy and dangerous products while they profit off the rich... Because this is what communism BREEDS! Equality among workers... in that all are equally miserable and effectively enslaved. If you dissent you're likely to... vanish...

But...

BUT!

Did you ask yourself 'do we even need this railroad in the first place?' I wager you didn't and you simply assumed that it was needed. For all you know this is a village of, like, 50 people with no need of a railroad and all you've done is produce a wasteful railroad that only exists because the government says it should exist.

If you think that there will be some perfect communist utopia let me tell you, you're better off hunting unicorns. What you will see, every time, is massive mono-parties that claim to be 'for the people' but instead quash any dissent and opposition and even people who simply wish to do something as simple as move a garbage pile but don't have the parties endorsement (that actually happened in China) as the workers will be effectively turned into a slave force and the party elites live lives of opulent indulgence. We're freaking out in America because our Walmart's, while still having food and other products, are having issues keeping stock... while in places like Venezuela people are having to fight to defend their lemon trees because the people are starving while the 'president' dines on feasts and always seems to get at least 51% of the vote no matter how unpopular he is.

Why do you think your vision of communism will succeed? Because you wished it to be?