Communism is a failed form of government that should not be tried again.

Since my opponent failed to provide a definition of communism, I shall do so now: "In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal")... is the radical social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money,... and the state."[1] Next, I shall provide the definition for Totalitarianism, as I believe this to be relevant. "Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.[2] So, there is a big difference between these two ideologies, and they should never be mixed up together. Communism is a stateless society, whereas totalitarianism is a society where the state has not limits to its authority. Since the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and many other nations people improperly consider communist, still have a state, they were never communist. In fact, I would argue that these countries were totalitarian, thus they cannot be used as examples for proving communism is a failed form of government. Finally, I shall provide the definition for State Capitalism, as this is also relevant since the aforementioned countries had this form of economics, and not communism. "State capitalism is usually described as an economic system in which commercial (i.e., for-profit) economic activity is undertaken by the state, where the means of production are organized and managed as state-owned business enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, wage labor, and centralized management), or where there is otherwise a dominance of corporatized government agencies (agencies organized along business management practices) or publicly listed corporations of which the state has controlling shares." [3] My opponent, therefore, has yet to provide an example of communism that has failed due to being communist. I will thus provide an example of a communist society, which was the Free Territory of Ukraine(Makhnovia) during the Russian Civil war between the black army, red army, and white army. The black army was the Free Territory of Ukraine's army. This Ukraine was communist since it had a stateless society, communes/an economy that were communally owned, and money was stamped out. [4] It's often called an anarchist society, but essentially it is the same as a communist society since it was a very far leftist anarchist society. Communism is essentially a left-wing form of anarchism after all since it is a stateless society, and that is what anarchy is. The free territory eventually met its demise not because it had communism, but rather because it was beaten by the red, bolshevik army. There is not much known about the free territory, and I can't find much in regards to how successful it was economically. At any rate, I'm not arguing that communism is successful, rather I am just arguing that what my opponent claims is false which is that communism is a failed form of government. There is no evidence to suggest it is, and thus no reason to believe it is. Sources: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org...