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There are still lots of people in the world who think that the one hundred plus million pile of corpses directly attributable to communism is a bug, that the system can work without that.
They are wrong. Those bodies are a feature.
Communism has no other recourse to deal with the vast number of people who can't be compelled to give up being selfish. This is the central weakness of communism as a system, it has no answer for people who don't voluntarily play along. It must have a strong, totalitarian government to force everyone to play, and even then there will be those who won't, so communists simply kill them.
That is still the surface level characteristic. Where you pretend leadership actually wants to pursue the propaganda of a communist utopia. Communism, like all leftist ideologies, is a tool that sociopaths use to gain power. It requires strong centralized power, and like all systems is vulnerable to corruption. And since it lends itself to totalitarianism, and has a religious element to convince the horde of useful idiots, it is nearly ideal for a sociopath.
No leftist system of government can survive inevitable corruption. That is why all leftism fails. Decentralized and limited government is less vulnerable to sociopaths and less capable of causing damage to society.