it didn't work in Russia. It failed in North Korea. It will always fail, because communism in practice treats/ gives everyone the same outcome regardless of effort. It's a race to the bottom, because everyone will put in the least amount of effort to get the same as someone who busts their ass. it kills any kind of ambition, and rewards slackers and go-getters the same. How is this fair? They tried this experiment in one of the early American colonies (Jamestown, I think) , and it failed. The colonists ended up starving to death.