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The strongest argument against communism is "How could a man plan economy if he can't plan his todo list app without producing bugs?"

People tend to fail in simple predictions but communists and hardcore socialists still believe they can manually control systems of enormous complexity.

Number of failed communist regimes confirms they can't. (But these regimes are quite good at producing death and starvation.)

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You seem to have conflated communism, an economic system, with totalitarianism, a system of government.

There are plenty of working socialist republics, and democratic communes are alive and well (albeit on a smaller scale).

Communism is a philosophy in the first place. It leads to a certain type of governing and managing economy. On practice it also lead into a totalitarian state every single time.

Communes and kibbutzes are almost universally democratically governed, so no it does not lead to a totalitarian state every time. That's a ridiculous claim.

Why do kibbutzim belong to communism? Communism is based on works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. You can't just attach a "communist" tag on every commune that has shared property.

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