Reply #16: Communism has been tried a number of times.

[Radical Activist]

We should be honest with ourselves that those countries and others made attempts at communism, even though they failed to achieved anything closely resembling it. The lesson is that giving enough power to any central ruling authority to create a communist society is just as likely to be used for the creation of something vastly different.

We have also seen many times that the conditions which are supposed to bring about communist revolution are just as likely to bring about something much worse. Conservative corporate leaders have shown themselves to be far better at using a crisis to achieve their goals than Marxists have. Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein was a conclusive study of that reality.

Waiting for a Marxist revolution to usher in a dictatorship of the proletariat has proven to be a failed strategy at reaching the end goals of communism.