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Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]
Because it fails to provide with the even most basics of human needs. Food. The main reason is export. What would Germany, US or China be without export? Absolutely nothing. A bit of soil and that's it. Cuba exported sugar to the Soviet well above market price, a fake export if you will.
Can communism ever work? Maybe. If all other countries on the planet had the same system, and if there basicly was no thing like economy or money and everybody settled for basic needs, food and shelter. Pre-industrial era so to speak.
To invent new things, like cars, rockets, frozen foods, energy you need incentetives to do so. Under communism there's nothing like that. Personal gain is the biggest incentetive a human has, whether it be fortune or social status. A planned economy will not give new ideas, because it is of course against "planned". To make product "A" you need the subparts "B" and "C". What if your country don't have or can't make "B"? You must get it from someone else, import/export. Which again is why communism never worked. Because in order to trade you need value (which communism fails to create) and the only other option for it to work is what I said earlier, every country then needs to have the same system and there can be no such thing as an "economy".
Making communism work means sacrificing yourself for the greater good of the collective. Which only works if everybody believes in the same thing and want to achieve to same goal.