10-31-2014, 10:45 PM
The first and third you describe are not valid categories. You could say the regimes in China and Russia aren't "real communism", just as your dad not having enough money isn't "real capitalism". Community sharing has existed for thousands of years in tribes and small villages, but try to build a complex governmental institution out of it. "But it could work if it was done properly! It would be amazing!" I wait for the day the amazing arrives.