Hey Guys, Let's Talk About Communism

So I’m trying to solve obesity and world hunger with the same solution.  I decided that things would be a lot better if we just grew our own food and looked out for each other.  Sounds nice, doesn’t it?  Living in an agricultural utopia where we all get along, everyone has enough food, and we’re all taken care of.  Well apparently Marx, Stalin, and Lenin had the same idea.  We all know that Communism didn’t work, and that there was mass starvation.  I just don’t know why.  I never really looked into it. Communism is good in theory, but not in practice.  I’m trying to create a model civilization like a kibbutz and I keep finding these weird political ideologies I haven’t even heard of, like anarcho-syndicalism.  I’m not really into politics or government, but it’s kind of necessary for a community to function properly… Right?

            Anyway, I’m kind of struggling with the ‘politics’ part of my food politics paper.  I think if I wanted to understand more about this, I’d have to research more about the Israeli government and the role it plays in the kibbutz, which is apparently pretty minimal. 

            There are a lot of issues with having a society like that.  For one thing, most people don’t consider farming or anything agriculture-related as their career of choice.  Another thing to think about is the structure of its government.  Another issue entirely is our nature as human beings.  I tend to believe that human beings are generally bad, and that we do things to further our own interests and what we have is never enough.  Humans are constantly trying to prove their better than anyone else, and they probably won’t thrive on a situation where everyone has to take care of each other.  Then again, the vast majority of us depend on a few farmers and the companies they work for, for food. I might be going a little too deep into it, but I really want to find the solution.  What do you guys think?