Even if this story is unreliable I think it is , the fact remains that every commune has failed . And the number is not small , its at least in the hundreds . And the failures are not idiosyncratic . They share features in common . The real question is why socialists have ignored empirical evidence and focused on pure theory . Karl Marx is an especially good example of this . <| sep |> I do this everyday , I never learn . <| sep |> Abbott has been fucking McGrathlike <| sep |> The difference is in how it ' s prosecuted . A speeding ticket can be let go because it ' s the State in the parliamentary , not US sense who prosecutes . Trespassing isn ' t prosecuted at all because it ' s civil law rather than criminal and must be pursued by the wronged party the plaintiff rather than the prosecutor . If the cop didn ' t uphold their property rights and it came to court then he ' d . well I dunno but it wouldn ' t look good . Property rights are important , at least for now .