User blog comment:OreoToast555/Communism for noobs/@comment-7576024-20130726194530

True enough assessment of the USSR / Maoist China.

I would argue though that communism IS a bad thing. If all people are equal, there is little motivation. This is what you associated to the government becoming autocratic. In reality, all great innovations have come from capitalistic nations, where there was a reward for the discovery.

In Communsit Russia, the scientists who kept the USSR up to par with the US (note, up to par is a loose term, they were still behind the US), were threatened with death.