The way I perceive it, communism went wrong from the very moment the concept was put into practice. There is too much conflict with the human psyche and ideology for communism to work purely, as it was meant to do so. Modern day communism is a sewer for government rats to float on the bribes of civillians. Money has become the utmost power a normal citizen can achieve. A person can become a doctor by bribing a government official - the implications of this practice are severe, and is the cause of many preventable deaths; illnesses; traumas; missing organs; drug addictions, and can easily raise the rate in which 'super bugs' evolve. The communist regimes are also allowed a different level of power to the beourgois - officers live with a certain amount of control over society the ordinary could never dream of possessing.
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Thus, we can deduct that human ideology has turned this paradisiacal concept into yet another lesson we must learn from history.
Greed, the sin of all humans, is the ideal I believe disconfirms communism most.
"It is greed to do all the talking, but not want to listen at all."
- Democritus (460 BCE - 370 BCE).
But what exactly does greed have to do with communism?
Let us turn to the definition of communism to provide the answer.
"A system of social organization in which alleconomic and social
activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party."
- Dictionary.com (24 July 2016)
So here is the definition of communism that the majority of society can utter confidently, and the definition only a quarter of them can understand.
Communism is an idealistic utopia for, and in no greater context, society.
Ongoing draft.