Ideological flamewar is tedious and off topic here. An open internet forum will never have anything new or interesting to say about any of this; it will simply reset Groundhog Flamewar Day. Therefore, please don't do this on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Furthermore, even if it is implementation details, maybe the implementations we have had so far are the best that humanity can do.

I would argue that the True Scotsman's communism is actually worse than the flawed implementations. It is complete garbage.

The fact that there could exist a privileged class within communist societies, a class that had better access to higher grade goods, education and everything else, was actually an improvement.

It gave people something to strive for: get in with the right people, to get the kids better schooling, and so on.

People need that; nobody who is capable of hustling wants to be equal to a sloth who rest on his laurels.