Has communism ever worked? Legit question...

Implying that is bad, reactionary.

There was one period of famine in the early 30's that's it. None between then and the mid nineties, when capitalism caused mass death in Russia. So on that count, the success lasted more than 50 years right of the bat. As to mass executions, those too ended in the main in the thirties. Religion was also rehabilitated soon after during WWII. Of course WWII made life hell while it lasted because of the capitalist nazi's invading, but really, between 1945 and 1980 Soviet socialism was quite humane and successful, and it remained humane if not so successful after 1980. Economic and technological growth, full stomachs, highly educated people, superpower status. Counts as success in my book.

I don't understand why it's a bad thing to ask questions, user. I'm really trying to build my case as to how socialism is a better economic model than capitalism, which I really do believe. I just don't have any concrete evidence to support what I believe, thus why I'm asking for help.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2430906

Liar, you've already been whining about executions, dictatorship, etc., which is unrelated to economics.

But it doesn't seem like a good thing to persecute mass amounts of people based on their social upbringing. It wasn't okay for Hitler to kill jews and homosexuals, was it?

you're not very good at this are you Zig Forums?

Religion is not innate and people can be shown their religion is nothing more than reactionary, archaic garbage

I haven't been whining, dude. I'm just pointing out that other people have extensively discussed and written about that kind of thing, and I'd love to get hard evidence that that isn't the case.

Which religions, and why?