Communism is a very bad way of trying to achieve very good unrealizable ideals!
Communism is a very bad way of achieving Utopian Socialism.
A utopian socialist society is not realizable across the whole of society.
A utopian socialist society is only realizable across a limited number of people who choose such a life, such as in a Hippy commune.
In this form, there have been many successful utopian socialist societies.
But it is just not possible to convince everyone across an entire society to give up the persuit of material things in favor of a utopian socialist society.
Communism is what resulted when people got frustrated and tried to figure out how to force a utopian socialist society upon the whole of society.
Utopia just simply does not work when you try to force it.
That was what went wrong with Communism.
But the utopian socialist ideals are still good ideals.
It is trying to force those ideals upon the whole of society that is wrong with Communism.
But to try to convince people to go along with those ideals on their own, like John Lennon does in his song Imagine, that is something far better.
Ideals work only if we don't try to force them upon people.
But simply teaching utopian Socialist ideals, without teaching any kind of attempt to force them upon anyone, is a wonderful thing.
Communism was a very bad way of trying to force a very good thing upon all of society.
But the same thing works so well if we only teach it, and don't try to force it.
The utopian socialist ideals are very good ideals.
John Lennon is one of the people to learn them from.
Just my thoughts on what was right and wrong with Communism, a heavy subject!
God loves you! Look to the light and be happy!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson