Has communism ever worked? Legit question...

Which people? Are you included in the people? How big would you like your community to be?

Someone told me Rick and Morty is a stupid show. I scoffed at them and replied, "To be fair it takes an altitudinal Autism Level to comprehend, nein, fathom Rick and Morty. The humour is extrêmement subtile, and without a doctorate degree covering Bell inequalities, micro-lattice structures, and Schrödingerian quasi-contradictory quandaries et cetera (basically common knowledge among the top 10.3% among the world's best theoretical physicists) most of the jokes will evanesce or float away like Kantian noumena vis-a-vis Kantian phenomena, in other semantic units AKA words to plebes, as they say in some ethno-linguistic communities, but I digress: ありがとうございました. Furtherthus, to neologize a neologism henceforth, Rick’s existential-ideological naysaying, which is ITSELF located within/via Althusserian/Foucauldian poststructuralism along the subversive-critical lines of various neo-Marxist-Leninist-Maoist analyses - his tacit (cf. Polanyi) schemata appropriates affective resonances from Narodnaya Volya literature, AKA 네 엄마는 너무 뚱뚱해. The fans understand this 陰毛, as colloquially known (excepting for Gettier cases), to quote the Chinese media scholar Jean-Claude Baudrillard: "Un jugement négatif vous donne plus de satisfaction que d'éloges, à condition que cela ressemble à de la jalousie" ; they have the Intelligenz/くそ to truly (BUT WHAT IS TRUTH, cf. Sura 2:140, John 18:38) appreciate the Aristotelian-Thomistic-Hegelian synthetic a priori interpenetrative dialogic concealed within and without these tokens of jokes, to realise that they’re not just totalitarian HAHAHAs 😀 in a post-postmodern world of hegemonic HUHUHUs 😞 - light-hearted Chopin to your heavy-handed Brahms, if I may, no pun intended - they betoken something deep about Heidegerrian Dasein (cf. Mahabharata 5.39.58) through which we can, in the words of the poet William Wordsworth, 一个巫师从来没有迟到，他总是一个有力量的人 (Nǐ shìgè báich for those who aren’t fluent in Korean). m_nkind (note: "Mankind" is a sexist term, see Judith Butler's Gender Trouble published by Routledge, London:London March 1990) or should I say, specimens of m_nkind who manifest disaffection (i.e. βοηθήστε με, παρακαλώ να με βοηθήσει κανείς) contingent upon “their” finite liminal qualia vis-a-vis Rick & Morty’s transcendental apperception via meme-ification truly (but again, WHAT IS TRUTH? お前はもう死んでいる) ARE idiotos (masculine of idiota in German, contra p_triarchal discourse)- of course, necessarily they wouldn’t appreciate vis-a-vis their unity-of-consciousnesses, for instance, the linguistico-Bayesian formal articulation in Rick’s slogan existentiel “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a Derridian poly/hypertextual para-dactyllic reference to Turgenev’s Lacanian epic отцы и изюм (reminiscent of Turgenev's earlier вы используете переводчика, не так ли, сука?) I’m smirking right now in several languages just envisioning in my corpus callosoom one of those cisgendered, capitalist-fascist, hyper-Puritanical, anti-anti-anti-omnicorporatistic biguts scratching their 陰茎 (EXCUSE MY FRENCH) in anti-jouissance as polyglot, Renaissance Zen m_n Dan Harmon’s Minervian owl unfolds itself (Note: あなたは実際にこれを翻訳していたのですか？あなたはあなたの時間を無駄にしています ) at the break of dawn/don/DUNE (semantic balderdash!) on their Lovecraftian-boob-tubes, to subtly reference the semantic units of the Scottish philosopher David Hume who would also say: “あなたのママはとても太っている.” What 아 름 다 운 영 혼 을 가 진 바 보 들 .. je suis tout seul."

Any person, we all have social networks with people. Facebook groups can be considered communities.

That was difficult to read but worth it.

All right! So what size community would you personally be comfortable living in, without government or specialized labor?

Ideally one would apply a principle of those being affected by a choice having political authority to vote or decide the outcome of that choice. That is, it would be necessary to give political power - real political power - to everyone and not just a class of lawmakers and bureaucrats. Even in a society with more or less socialized production the ability of this class to influence outcomes of decisions would give them leverage to establish themselves as a class within society and to promote their own material interests. Even in a situation where they are paid only a normal worker's pay they could still take decisions which would result in non-monetary forms of compensation, such ensuring that their own working conditions were better than others or using control of job appointments to extract sexual favors from those being hired.

The problem is not so much the individual abuse of authority but the tendency for this authority to expand and solidify over time into definite class relations.

So absolutely every single person in a society should have direct say on the making, enforcing and interpretation of laws? This seems reasonable, but how would it work effectively if nobody is trained or specialized in these skilled trades?

Well, in theory you wouldn't need a say on laws that didn't affect you, but in matters pertaining to public budgets, taxes, etc everyone would be affected.
If "politics" becomes a trade then it implies there is a class of politicians, which would be unfortunate.

Lenin pushed for basically the same ideas: all government officials are to be elected, subject to recall, and paid the same as an ordinary workers. Their job is to administrate and execute the decisions of the people and not to make decisions for the people. Trying to apply this principle, I admit, is very difficult in practice. For that reason a revolution should aim for a very radical leveling of society in the very beginning rather than waiting for an eventual transition. The longer a revolution waits to abolish class structures the more difficult it becomes due to the old classes (and new ones) entrenching themselves into the social structure.

To make complex rules and judgements based on those rules requires specialized talent, though. Unless you really want everyone to live in tiny preindustrial villages like the good old days, where nobody needed to make complex laws to regulate the intricacies of modern civilization, wouldn't you need a group of people who are specifically trained to expertly address such matters?

true communism has never been tried.