The Magic of Communism
Communism presents itself as an economic theory.
A rational end state.
A system beyond exploitation.
That is the promise.
What it actually removes is ownership of consequence.
Property is abolished.
Production is shared.
Outcomes belong to everyone.
Which means responsibility belongs to no one in particular.
This is the magic.
Scarcity does not disappear.
It relocates.
Costs do not vanish.
They diffuse.
Failure no longer arrives as a clear signal.
It settles into the environment.
In market systems, failure is explicit.
Someone runs out of money.
Something shuts down.
In communist systems, failure is ambient.
Everyone waits.
When no one owns the output, no one maintains the process.
When no one controls the process, control centralizes anyway.
Power concentrates upward.
Blame spreads outward.
Ownership is replaced by administration.
Administration is replaced by committees.
Committees are insulated by time, language, and distance.
Nothing breaks cleanly enough to stop the machine.
Labor is declared sacred, then stripped of leverage.
Price signals are abolished, then replaced with quotas.
Incentives are flattened, then enforced.
Accountability becomes theoretical.
When production fails, the explanation is never structural.
It is sabotage.
It is insufficient commitment.
It is the wrong people.
Error cannot be admitted without indicting the system itself.
So reality is rewritten instead.
Shortages become proof of virtue.
Compliance becomes solidarity.
Silence becomes safety.
This is not corruption of the model.
It is the model.
The magic is not that it fails.
The magic is that it continues to run—
fed by belief, insulated from consequence,
and powered by the idea that wanting something badly enough is a substitute for knowing how to build it.
The machinery hums.
The shelves stay thin.
And no one can be held responsible for either.
