The asiatic success story is one side of the coin, I have to go by the European perspective, and the wall from the Baltic to the south, and in berlin was testimony how humans detested the way marxism had to be implemented, linked to micromanaging lives. perhaps no fault of the theoretical ideal. The communist's escape clause was
"short time pain for long time gain" but it did not happen soon enough,--- never. While the US paid workers an hourly wage, Communist countries operated on a piecework system, and had star performers setting records in fulfilling their "quota".
There is something to be said for central control in wartime though, otherwise,
Marx missed the mark.