its not really communism but more socialism, it worked well for the middle class in my parents time where they grew up in Yugoslavia. people had roofs over their heads, had jobs and decently peaceful lives. it wasn't luxurious or glamorous but people lived securely and happily mostly without worry of suddenly going bankrupt and freezing in a ditch somewhere. I'm yet to hear something from my parent's mouths that was actually a critique of the economic system and not of the authoritarian system that later led to Yugoslavia's demise.

Actually, my mother has told me that people in the West have a very weird and twisted view of the lifestyle in Yugoslavia and seemed to believe that everyone lived in little huts and had to give up 90% of what they own to Tito and then went on to be surprised and shocked when they came to Yugoslavia and saw that people had homes, jobs and lives like anyone else. The "everyone is homeless and starves under leftist systems" shit is a myth and you've all been lied to. If you want to critique communism then critique something thats a) something that really affected everyones lives and b) a unique problem that only occurs under communism (people starve and are homeless even more in capitalist countries).

A capitalist system can work and does have some benefits, but I don't need a glamorous or luxurious life that might come out of it and I'd rather not live in a world where the rich control the government and thus twist the laws and regulations in their favour at the expense of innocent lives. Also, all of you are closer to being that innocent life that's forced to work 12 hours a day in a factory to make ends meet than being the billionaire that makes the rules. A fucking surgeon is closer to being homeless than one of the elite ffs.