Why Communism is Impossible?

  There was time when all the nations in the world including the so called "Superpowers" of the time feared Communist takeover.  All this was started by some scholars of the 19th century writing books about a new Utopian economic model in which all the citizen will work and reap the benefits of their economy equally.  One of the well known authors of Communism is Karl Marx, a German writer who lived in England after fleeing from Germany.

  Communism was a radical idea at its time and in the turn of the century, in the early 20th century it became very popular when Capitalist industrialists were more influential in the government and the economy of nations than all the working population.  When at the demise of the World War I, Communism took over the Tsardom, all the world's governments feared similar uprisings in their nations.  At the end of the World War II, Communism posed an irresistible treat to the Global order.  But when the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, all the glorious ideas of equal benefits for all and economic and social equality faded.

  What happened?  No one knows.  Even today, the idea of all the people reaping equal benefits from the economy seems beautiful.  So why it failed?

  First thing all want to know is that the nations who were all called Communist were not following the real idea of Communism.  They were all following Socialism.

  The core philosophy of Communism didn't give place for one of the important thing that revolutionized trade thousands of years ago.  The most important and lovable thing in an economy for any of us, 'Money/Currency'.  It tried to completely eliminate currency from the economy.

  Communism tells that all the benefits of the economy should be distributed equally to all the stakeholders who participated in creating the wealth.  But who will do that?  If there was a famine, and a shortage of produce to whom should the loss go?  It goes to all rather than to a few like in capitalist market economies.  What if the organisation or persons who distribute the wealth became greedy?  What if they used their role of distributing the benefits to exploit the people who receive the benefits?

  Communism states that 'All should work as hard as they could and get as much as they should'.  How to measure the work they had done?  And how to decide what they should get?  Which mechanism will help them to get as much as they should?

  All these questions, were hard and are hard.  No one knows how to give a solution for this problem.  And this questions contributed more to the demise of communist nations than any other factor that affected them.

  Communism is glorious just as the idea of an Utopia.  But I don't know whether it could be possible or not.  I'm not an economist or a historian to debate on it and find a solution for it.  This is what I understood of it.