Real communism was never tried. Or free markets.

I tried free markets last weekend. It works great. Roger Clinton was right, “free the market and the booty will follow”.

I'm not sure if you are being serious or not, but just in case: many versions of communism and socialism have been tried. When introduced at a country level, not only didn't they eradicate mass poverty or class inequalities (they just got other names), but for some reason they came with totalitarianism, violence, restricting freedom of speech, prosecuting enemies and other side-effects.

The cases where it (kind of) worked were local communes like Longo Mai (but even in these cases people argue because they receive donations, use external medical care etc.). The key difference in my opinion is that for any ideology to succeed, all members need to believe in it and actively engage towards its success. It's pretty much feasible at a local level but extremely difficult at a state level.

Communism only looks good on paper if you know nothing about human behavior.

Georgism aims to take the best aspects of capitalism (market-driven optimization) while restraining some of its worst qualities (speculative bubbles driving higher prices and rents which in turn strangle the economy).

> Communism only looks good on paper if you know nothing about human behavior.

Yet even HN is full of people dreaming of the proletariat revolution