I find it ironic and sad that today's brainwashed youth who consider themselves neo-revolutionaries just itching to burn everything down are basing their dreams of a post scarcity communist society on the successes of the capitalist society in which they grew up having access to excesses. Whereas if you've ever known someone who grew up in a communist society leaving it for a capitalist society they will describe a childhood that was a miserable existence of scarcity.

No system is perfect, but there is one key difference between communism and capitalism: self determination. Self determination doesn't work in communism. The state controls all, defines all and having an individual come along and disrupt the rigidity of a communist society is destructive because the rest of the society cannot react to the disruption. Whereas in a capitalist society self determination is promoted, expected and required. Disruption while destructive to existing monolithic entities is a creative force as the rest of the society has the ability to react, adapt and innovate to the new conditions.