Communism, professed by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, stands for equality, stands for the annulment of the classes, stands for the eradicate of exploitation of one man by another. Communism needed the annulment of the private property and to rest all the control to the state. In a way, Communism saw the whole country as a family and, the state or the government as the sole provider. It gave the state immense power and control over everything. Communism tried to bring equality among men but instead curtailed the freedom; curtailed the free will, the most essential ingredient of human beings. Without free will, we are no more than a machine; we are just a non-entity.
Communism is a combo of great philosophical, economical and political thoughts. Communism brought a great vision of equality, but human beings are not equal in the following sense. Every human has different needs, different desires and different aspirations. Every human is unique. One man may not have the capability to do the work of another man. Human beings are a great mixture of variety. It is a great blunder to ignore that and that is exactly what communism did. When one man cannot do another man's work, it invariably leads to the formation of classes based on their work. Until every man has equal capability to do any work, there will always be classes based on the nature of work. In this way, equality in the capability of human beings is not possible and so Communism will never be successful. To bring the philosophical concept of Communism into reality is impossible.
The two major nations Russia and China tried to follow communism, but they just did a poor job. They didn't eradicate the classes based on work. They didn't eradicate the exploitation of one man by another. Sweatshops are abundant in China. Just because a people from working class came to the power in Russia in 1917 doesn't mean they dissolved the classes based on the nature of work. Russia still has a big working class facing great financial difficulties exploited by the supposedly communist bureaucrats. In the communist systems of Russia and China, common people cannot question the communist state or the government. It gives absolute authority into the hands of the political communist leaders. It is worse than Monarchy. There is no regulation of the state and it is not a self-regulatory system. Absolute power is the root for absolute corruption and that was the reason monarchy and aristocracy was eradicated but it is an irony that communism which wanted to solve the problem has created the same problem. These communist governments are just a mockery of communism; They were unable to achieved what communism really professed. They didn't create equality or eradicate exploitation but instead created a system of no freedom. It has become a system of inequality, corruption, exploitation and worst of all it is a system where everybody is a slave to the communist government. Russia and China are two great examples showing why the philosophical concept of Communism into reality is impossible.
Communism strives to create an utopia of equality but it can only happen in a society of robots, where each robot has the same capability.
