User blog comment:Commissar. Dmitri/Communism Explained/@comment-3523988-20110424140937/@comment-74526-20110424142514

I'm afraid that's inaccurate: Communism does not call for everyone to be paid the same, but calls for the distribution of resources based on need, i.e.: Everyone gets food, everyone gets a house, if you're ill you get medicine. The USSR tried this, and they did have free healthcare, free education, and free housing, but attempts to supply food (and pretty much every other commodity) failed since the state-decided targets given to the collectivised farms and nationalised industry were always drastically short of what was actually needed. Nationalised industries are never as efficient as privatised ones.