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Anyone can state what the problem is but until you can come up with a solution it means nothing.

I don't think a lot of people can state what the problem is, that's part of the problem and part of why it persists.

I know Eastern Europe under communism produced some great animation, but were the animators well paid?

The salary range was small so they properly got an relative okay wage. Demands of workers was heavily suppressed in the east bloc though, so the soviet system is not something championed by organized labour nowadays.

Why is every anti-communist/socialist argument in the form of "It didn't work once, clearly we have no reason to learn from it or try again."

I feel that's a bit of a strawman.

It's generally closer to: "Every time it's been tried it's been either bad or disastrous, clearly we have no reason to learn from it or try again"

Which I think is fair! Hell, even the original strawman is a fair argument IMO. Fascism didn't work once, and I don't think there's much there to learn from (and we certainly shouldn't try it again).

I don't think the comparison to fascism is fair, as much as some would like to paint it that way. So many things are different now than in 1989, which is not to say a new system would be perfect, but Americans are inventive and we can improve it. We're not at the end of history.

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