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  How is communism better than capitalism? When has communism ever worked? Why will it work when implemented?
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  Communism is “better than capitalism” as a scientific matter of historical development. Capitalism, as Marx comprehensively demonstrated, is a system governed by the drive for profit rather than human need. It produces unimaginable wealth while condemning billions to poverty, insecurity, genocide, and war. It turns all human labor into a commodity, alienates us from our community and our labor, and periodically plunges all of society into worldwide crises that destroy life and productive forces both on a mass scale.  Communism as a historical stage, by contrast, replaces the wage system of socialized production for private profit with a new form of production and distribution for use, which is organized and carried out democratically by the associated producers, from each according...