User blog comment:Chriswalt/Psionic Revolutionary Society/@comment-75.87.67.69-20130913205857/@comment-75.87.67.69-20130917025341

I base my views off of, not "a man who failed to bring communism to socialism" as you phrased it, but off of all attempts to create a true, state-wide communism. The USSR, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, etc. Secondly, your example of a farmer growing grapes that everybody just takes as needed; what happens if the farmer is unable to grow enough grapes for everybody else? What if somebody, out of greed, takes more than needed and there isn't enough for everybody else? Plus, what is the drive for the farmer to grow the grapes? There is no reward for doing so. Humans are hard-wired to respond to and do things in exchange for some kind of reward, which releases a flood of dopamine in the brain, creating momentary pleasure or satisfaction. In a society where there is no reward, people have no drive to do anything for anybody. This may sound Machiavellian, but the average person cannot be trusted to act out of kindness towards everybody for no good reason, with no reward for doing so.