[goldstategop]

Communism doesn't work - not even as an ideal of human selflessness. It just defies human nature and wherever it has been tried, the results have been disastrous. No one can make it work even with the best efforts in the world. Given its real world record, one should expect intelligent people to completely reject it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Bob]

Given its real world record, one should expect intelligent people to completely reject it.

IMHO, intelligent people do completely reject it

[secretagent]

Communism has some limited life perhaps, in monasteries, lifeboats, and marriages.

[Secret Agent Man]

You can’t expect people to feel invested and concerned when they don’t own it and will not proportionately profit by their hard work.

If you get the same whether you do hardly anything or break your back, why bust your ass? This is what socialism and communism have taught us. The truth about human nature.

[HoosierHawk]

George Orwell:

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.