There are quite many reasons why communism (and it's slightly "lighter" variant, socialism) doesn't work, including economic reasons, and reasons related to fundamental human rights. However, at a more fundamental core level there's one major reason why it can't work in the long run:
Communism kills the human instinct and need to succeed. It stifles and smothers talent, creativity and hard work. It destroys the human instinct to better oneself and one's surrounding society, to improve, to progress.
How? Via the simple reason that communism eschews rewarding talent, hard work and creativity.
Let's face it, for centuries and even millenia, money is the ultimate material reward that the vast majority of people strive for. Sure, money has caused tons and tons of crimes and injustice because of the pursuit of money and riches. However, it has also driven progress and innovation. We wouldn't be where we are, technologically and socially, if it weren't for the fact that talent, hard work and innovation is materially rewarded (most usually with money).
More generally, private property, and the acquisition and improvement of it, is the biggest reward that drives hard work and innovation. Talented people make inventions, innovations and drive progress, and get rewarded for their hard work (most often by people buying their innovations, or hiring them for hefty salaries). It's the reason why, for example, technology has been advancing in absolutely staggering leaps in mere decades, with technology companies trying to out-perform each other at every turn, by creating better, more efficient and cheaper products.
Communism kills all this. There is no reason to make innovations and work hard when you don't get rewarded for it. You don't own anything of what you do, and aren't rewarded for anything with material private property or money. There is no motivation to improve yourself or your property, such as your home, because you don't own anything, and it could be taken away from you at any moment. There is no motivation to invent new things or improve things, because you won't own these new inventions, nor will you get any material benefits from them.
Essentially, society becomes dystopian and Orwellian. People are forced into living like robots, like worker ants, each with their government-specified task, pretty much effectively in forced labor that produces no rewards besides minimum sustenance and housing (that you don't own). You don't get rewarded for your hard work because that would mean that now you own more than others, which can't be allowed. Everybody will be poor, with only completely minimum standards of living, and stopped by force from even trying to improve their standards of living.
And this even in the absolute best case scenario where the government is completely benevolent and free from corruption and human rights violations. Which, in itself, will never happen.
In practice communism always and quickly devolves into totalitarianism because people must be forced into this kind of life, or else they will rebel. People do not want to live like this, and the only way to create such a communist society is to force people into it.
Communism kills the human instinct and need to succeed. It stifles and smothers talent, creativity and hard work. It destroys the human instinct to better oneself and one's surrounding society, to improve, to progress.
How? Via the simple reason that communism eschews rewarding talent, hard work and creativity.
Let's face it, for centuries and even millenia, money is the ultimate material reward that the vast majority of people strive for. Sure, money has caused tons and tons of crimes and injustice because of the pursuit of money and riches. However, it has also driven progress and innovation. We wouldn't be where we are, technologically and socially, if it weren't for the fact that talent, hard work and innovation is materially rewarded (most usually with money).
More generally, private property, and the acquisition and improvement of it, is the biggest reward that drives hard work and innovation. Talented people make inventions, innovations and drive progress, and get rewarded for their hard work (most often by people buying their innovations, or hiring them for hefty salaries). It's the reason why, for example, technology has been advancing in absolutely staggering leaps in mere decades, with technology companies trying to out-perform each other at every turn, by creating better, more efficient and cheaper products.
Communism kills all this. There is no reason to make innovations and work hard when you don't get rewarded for it. You don't own anything of what you do, and aren't rewarded for anything with material private property or money. There is no motivation to improve yourself or your property, such as your home, because you don't own anything, and it could be taken away from you at any moment. There is no motivation to invent new things or improve things, because you won't own these new inventions, nor will you get any material benefits from them.
Essentially, society becomes dystopian and Orwellian. People are forced into living like robots, like worker ants, each with their government-specified task, pretty much effectively in forced labor that produces no rewards besides minimum sustenance and housing (that you don't own). You don't get rewarded for your hard work because that would mean that now you own more than others, which can't be allowed. Everybody will be poor, with only completely minimum standards of living, and stopped by force from even trying to improve their standards of living.
And this even in the absolute best case scenario where the government is completely benevolent and free from corruption and human rights violations. Which, in itself, will never happen.
In practice communism always and quickly devolves into totalitarianism because people must be forced into this kind of life, or else they will rebel. People do not want to live like this, and the only way to create such a communist society is to force people into it.
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