Is communism as bad as people say

And where exactly has communism been tried out? Are you referring to the soviet Union? Communism is a very vague word.

The Soviet Uniondidn’t have communism. Nor did it have socialism either. it had a bureaucratically planned and administered economy in which the ruling class were the elite planners, Communist Party apparachiks, industrial managers and military brass. There was not private accumulators of wealth and the dynamics differed from either a capitalist or socialist economy. The exploitation of labor was carried out for the benefit of the bureaucracy who appropriated the results of production collectively as a class.

Wasn't communism at all and most Russians would actually tell you that life under soviet Union communism was far better than it is now, it is the people in the Eastern European countries of the former soviet Union who will tell you about how bad it was as it was part of a sort of colonial communism taking advantage of the Eastern European states.

The Soviet Union never practiced communism as described by Marx it had it's own form of communism completely different.

The whole point of Marx communism is to divide all the wealth and means of production equally thus handing the power back to the people and out of the hands of the top 1 or 2 percent.

The top 1% of Americans have about 16 times more wealth than the bottom 50% and things aren't much different in the UK and Ireland.

While you have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few then real democracy cannot exist as the top few percent have far too much power and influence over the nation.

It's the reason two party systems exist in most of the ''great'' democracies around the world the banks, the media, intelligence services, big corporations and the political parties (the top 1%) are almost like a society within a society and all do each other favors with the mutual interest of everyone maintaining their positions of power, they have far far more influence and power over the population.

Without massive money, power and friends in high places you will never (except in revolutionary circumstances) be able to convince masses of people to vote a certain way, the power at the end of the day lies with the wealthy they're the ones with the power to convince the masses.

I don't know how exactly to reply to this I'm not a sociological expert but there is a reason why people born into wealth almost always do the things you described and people born into poverty mostly don't.

Now there are some people like yourself born into wealth and go to school, college then get a great job who believe it has nothing to do with the sociological factors and more to do with your superiority to the rest of the population.

Now that's a general viewpoint I just made, obviously some people born poor manage to do all those things and some people born rich don't do any of them but generally for the most part that's what happens.

Not this crap again ''it's been tried and it didn't work'' tried by who? That lunatic Joseph Stalin? China today? China claims to be communist but has the biggest wealth inequalities in the world despite it officially calling itself communist its far from it.

Prior to the formation of the Communist Parties in the ‘20s, the word “communism” had always been used by socialists or radicals to refer to a society where there is not a division into a dominating, exploiting class on the one hand, and a class that is subordinate, does the work of producing things, and is exploited by the dominating class on the other hand. In other words, a communist society is a classless society.