[Nodachi]

I think it needs to be pointed out that there has never been (and probably never will be) a truly communist nation. What we refer to as "communism" is really socialism.

As someone pointed out earlier, all people being of equal value is a fallacy propagated by governments in order to maintain control over the population. All people are not of equal "value" but... should have equal rights and opportunities (value is a rotten word for this but it's the best I can think of). Government's purpose is to enforce laws and protect the populance from external threats not to babysit our children, not to tell us where we can and can not go, not to tell us what to believe in, and not to give handouts to those who are unwilling to help themselves (help those who can't, sure, help those who won't, hell no!)

The Star Trek vision of future Earth society is BS. It makes us feel good to think that we are working towards that kind of world but I don't see it ever coming to pass. Human nature is to want more than what we have. The trick is to maintain a society(note I did not say government) that allows for this.