Communism works as a political ideology.

Thank you for your rebuttals. Again, in order:A. Your analogy seems to contradict what you said right before; you start by saying that the goods are evenly distributed throughout society, implying that the government is in charge of that task, but then your analogy points towards a system where people TAKE what they need, making each individual responsible for their own acquisitions. These two views are entirely contradictory; you and the government can not both be the ones who decide what you get. Plus your analogy assumes that everyone is only going to take what they NEED and not what they WANT, which is highly unlikely: I may only NEED a potato and a slice of ham to survive, but I WANT sushis. The whole system collapses even if only a minority of people act selfishly, since it is basically impossible to quantify each individual's needs. You then go on to say that people who take something will also put something down, but if I take a chainsaw and put a nail down, is it fair? Then if you start attributing value to everything in order to make sure that it is fair, you transitioning towards capitalism. And yes, the video game industry would crash, because nobody NEEDS a video game; video games exist for the sole purpose of entertaining the person that buys them. How would you go about 'evenly distributing' video games? I know some people who don't like video games and some people who really enjoy them, but wouldn't giving video games only to the latter category be uneven? And if your solution is simply to give anything one may want and you still think that communism is sustainable, you are living in a fantasy. B. That is so false, I don't even know where to begin. Do you really expect people who lack artistic talent to give up their dream, especially if there is no downside? Can you even expect them to realize that they have no talent? I agree that a band that no one listens to is not contributing much to society, but would you really give the government the power to decide which band is worth existing and which isn't? Another problem with arts is the uniqueness of a work; if a painter makes a beautiful painting, who gets to have it? If no one, then he isn't really contributing to society, hence the downfall of painting. C. 'If people do not work for society, society will not work for them'. So. .. no social safety net? If someone is, for whatever reason, unable to be employed, he is left to starve? And if you get fired, you won't receive any food? The problem with your view is that it is extremely simplistic and does not account for many practical issues. The rest of the paragraph is based around the fact that every job is of equal necessity to society and of equal difficulty. Neither of these are true: the video game industry is FAR LESS useful to society than the medical industry and an emergency physician has a FAR MORE difficult job than a waiter, and yet they both get equal reward. 'The doctor would enjoy the work he/she does otherwise they would not do it' If you think that everyone enjoys what they do for a living, then you are clearly living in a fantasy. You claim that communism offers equal opportunity, but how don't see how this is the case giving the fact that you simply asserted it without evidence. D. I'm aware that a communist country has a government, I was simply disputing your assertion that no one has any form of power in that society. You say that the government only has a common job, but surely you realize that someone who deals with that kind of stuff (deciding who gets what) will be tempted by greed to corrupt the system and favor themselves and their friends. 'People within society could be greedy about the goods they are offered, but why would they? '. Because SOME PEOPLE ARE GREEDY BY NATURE. It's a brut fact, and I don't see how communism could resolve this issue. Saying that it is not good to be greedy because other people would then stop producing things for you is ridiculous, since no one can measure when NEEDING becomes WANTING and also because you can't simply stop producing for one particular person. In summary, communism (or at least your version of it) fails for two major reasons:1) NEED vs. WANT: It is absolutely impossible to reconcile the needs and desires of each individual and at the same time being fair to everyone. Not everybody needs and wants the same amount of things, and determining whether someone actually needs the amount (or type) of food they ask for is nearly impossible. Plus, providing everyone with what they need and never with what they want would make for an extremely sad and unpleasant society. In the case where we allow people to acquire things for the sole reason that they want it, greed will inescapably take over and excess and exaggeration will become an insurmountable problem, since everything would be 'free' and should theoretically be available for everyone (i. e. there would be no shortage of anything, which is impossible).2) UNFAIRNESS in EQUALITY: Although communism promotes equality in the sense that it provides everyone with the same amount of things, it is unfair in the sense that it does not provide an amount of things that is proportionate to the difficulty and usefulness of an individual's work. According to you, enjoying what we do should be reward enough and money is only a bonus, but in reality not everyone enjoys what they do and those that are lucky enough to actually enjoy it would often still prefer to do something else if the pay was the same. Jobs are not all equally useful and they certainly are not equally hard. Things like driving a cab, cutting hair or being a cashier are extremely easy to do compared to being a firefighter, doctor or policeman. The entertainment industry (sports, arts, games, beauty, etc. ) is far less important in society than education or medicine. Communism makes no distinction between all of these and that is utterly unfair. It is precisely that unfairness that makes the argument of 'incentive to work' so bad; equal rewards for superior efforts is extremely unsatisfying and is even quite annoying to most people.