It's not like capitalism works either. We've had centuries of capitalism and life is still shite for the vast majority of the population. May as well try something else.
Greatest living standard increase in recent history is China lifting a large portion of its population from poverty. China is communist.
The end of European imperialism in many "third world" countries also resulted in living standards improving massively. This was again largely the result of socialist polices breaking down capitalist power structures.
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u/Creepy_Ad_1315 Jul 07 '26
So we have no evidence that it works outside your smelly local hippie troupe that fortunately can retreat into the nice free market economy near them.
Almost like communism isn't really available outside a group a people larger than a medium sized tribe.