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I just think the ideology is admirable but fundamentally flawed. Allow me to post up an interesting (though most likely fictional) anecdote that was relayed to me:

<sup>A professor in a freshman economics course covers the different socioeconomic options available to the world fairly early on. Enamored with the idea of communism -- the equality, the sharing of community wealth, and so on, the students make the case to their professor that it's clearly superior. The professor decides he will run the course using such ideals -- Everyone will receive the same median grade. So if everyone does well enough, they can all receive an 'A' in the course.

The first exam rolls around soon thereafter and the results were pretty typical. But everyone receives a C because the average score was less than a B but higher than a D. Naturally the overachievers are a little angry, and everyone else is either indifferent or ecstatic. By the time the second exam rolls around, they've figured this game out -- the overachievers will always overachieve and they can ride the wave to passing this boring Econ 101 they didn't want to take in the first place. As a result the median score on the second exam is a lower C.

By the time the final exam comes up, the professor and remaining overachievers urge the students to study harder and do well. The average students don't see the point of putting in the effort to get a grade they would get without studying. The overachievers are growing more and more disillusioned to the point that some have given up entirely. The underachievers wish the grades were coming in better, but have little motivation to help seeing as how they've gotten C's so far and are in line to pass with an acceptable grade without having to crack a single textbook.

Needless to say, everyone failed the final exam and subsequently the course. Angry students from all over the bell curve came banging at his door demanding to know what happened to their grades. He could give them no recourse but to remind them that it was their social contract with him, not anything he imposed on them. He could only remind them that having not learned that lesson was in itself justification enough to fail them.</sup>

I doubt it's true at all, but I think the story pretty well explains how I see Communism as working in reality, which is really a pity as the goals of caring for everyone's needs are quite admirable to begin with.