Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap

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When people get into a serious car crash, usually within a couple minutes, someone stops to make sure the parties involved are all ok - if they aren't, they call paramedics.

Personally, I don't think a Communist Society would be nearly as perfect as it seems you perceive it as for one very simple reason. It was created by imperfect people, and they won't be able to create a perfect thing. We never have. A Utopia sounds wonderful, but there are so many different types of people in the world, that one man's Utopia is another man's Hell.

Thus, I don't think it's possible to create a single society that could make everyone satisfied, unless you also make everyone the same (including how they think). . .and that sounds terrifying. Becuase who (or what) would decide what that singular standard should be, and why should it be forced upon everyone regardless of how they like it?

It's even more than that. Let's say hypothetically, that you could somehow, just for the sake of argument, have a society that did NOT have people at the top who are tyrants and everyone really was equal. Not gonna happen, but just for argument's sake.
The problem with that society is that it would become stagnant and never move forward at all. With no incentive to do more and better work, there would be no reason for people to strive for advancement. People generally need incentive to create, to invent and to even do anything above average.

It would be a dead end. That's the best case scenario even under unrealistic conditions.