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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Communism could only work if everyone, seemingly under some hypnosis, all decided to discard wealth and possession and status and everything, all at once.

If any meaningful fraction of the population retains capitalism, the influence of personal gain would override, as it has in the past.