Theoretically, it's a nice idea, but it just doesn't work in practice.

What we in the west was made to think was communism in places like Russia and China was never really communism to begin with. For a start, there would of been no repressive, probably fascistic government in place at all. No elite what so ever. Workers would of run their own workplaces and factories instead of some bureaucratic elite. Community needs would of been put first but you still find nationalism in Mao's China and the former Soviet Union. Something that shouldn't exist at all in a communist world as nation states wouldn't exist really. In theory, communism should be more free than capitalism but it depends on how its implemented. But i'm not even sure if we can expect a system to survive when its based purely on people being selfless and productive. Communism is supposed to be a global system too just like capitalism.

Anyway, i'm kind of sympathetic to it and find alot of the red witch hunts especially in 1950s America quite ridiculous. Although I need to read into the different versions of communism, although it seems just like Anarchy few people understand what communism really is.

Socialism is kind of similar to communism but is more the economic part than anything.

Please explain. This has got to be one of the craziest things i've ever heard! 

It's kind of true though. Few kind and selfless people have become very successful. To become rich, you have to backstab and be as selfish as possible. Otherwise, you wouldn't have all that wealth in the first place. Capitalism purely focuses on financial matters and completely disregards any social matters 

It's a good theory, but I don't think it works in practise.

For starters, even in communism you will have a group of elite who have more power than others. I doubt members of higher ranks of the USSR were waiting in line for bread like everyone else. 

There's never going to equality in that sense, human nature is to try and exploit any system for individual gain first and foremost.

Capitalism is just more upfront about it.

Socialism works just fine though, with Canada, Europe, and Japan adopting various degrees of it, so there's that.

I remember being told many years ago.

Capitalism succeeds while Communism fails for the same reason. Human Greed

Communism is awful in theory and even worse in practice.

Its ok, he's Polish.

He could of just said he hated Germans and Russians for what they done to his country lol 

He's doing it. In another thread.