communism

communism's tenet: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. communism requires each participant to contribute to a common pool. it is a worker's utopia (or so we were made to believe). for example, you are a hard working genius. you are required to work more and produce more because of your ability. now, let's say you are disabled and posses no productive talents. as long as you are starving, the pool will give you all your needs. i am not familiar what went wrong with russia, but what i do know is that it makes people dependent on the abilities of others. you might as well just loaf all day, and the pool would feed you. or maybe you are breaking you back working just so that some incompetent slob could eat.