not exactly opposing - confusion

[la chamaca]

ok, well i am not opposing anything, i am just trying to get clarification. to begin with, just out of curiosity may i have an example where communism has actuaaly worked? i have seen a trend of new communists and i ask why they believe in that and they say because nothing else has worked. and the only country anywhere near getting an idea of how communism is good is china, but even that is invalid because correct me if im wrong but i do not believe china has ever even begin to know what freedom is. now secondly the reason i don't necessarily agree with communism could be because i don't fully understand all that it consists of. my connotation of communsim is basically the gov't owns everything that normally you would own. it is a collective society but it seems to have a dictatorship. and that always baffled me because with power comes greed. so how it is it positive? please help me fully understand. thatnks and have an awesome day!!!:P

[Sandanista]

There has never been a true communist country, all the countries that have had so-called communist governments we're infact state capitalist.

The system of government isnt communism as none of the countries had the natural resources to be a truly socialist society, and therefore relied on trade, and trade isnt part of communism, its part of capitalism.

Plus the so-called communist nations we're top-down oligarchies, socialism is supposed to be from below-upwards.