On Nov 29, 6:45 pm, "Adam Corolla"
wrote:

Actual communist societies not only survive, they thrive. Twin Oaks and
East Wind in the US are two examples. They produce way more than they
consume. However their membership numbers leveled off in the 1970s at
around 60 to 100, because that's about how many people out of the two to
three hundred million in the US who actually want to live the way Marx was
talking about. They rule by a set of by-laws which can be changed by a
two-thirds majority vote. In other words, these "communist" societies are
also true democracies in which the majority (in this case, two-thirds rather
than +50%) actually rules, unlike any nation on earth!

Maybe some communistic societies thrive, but not all of them. I
visited " The Farm " in Tennessee. They were existing, but not
thriving. The reason seemed to be that those that joined had no
skills or education. With a low standard of living , there was not
much incentive for someone that knew a trade to join. But there was
an incentive for those that were more or less homeless to join. They
were consuming everything that was produced and more. When one joined
one had to contribute all of ones savings. Well actually more like
all that one had inherited.

The Farm is still in existance and has a web site. Apparently they
reorganized in 1983 which is after I had visited. So it is no longer
communistic.

Dan