[fighterpilot]

  "early days of the Soviet Union."

The early days of the Nazi regime weren't that bad, either.

  "Paris commune"

The Paris commune only lasted for a few months. If history is any guide, it would've turned into an authoritarian hellhole eventually.

[pydry]

They did have some kooky policies like the abolition of child labor. Some people today are still against this even today on the basis that it's pro freedom and really it's better for the children in the long run:

https://www.learnliberty.org/videos/economic-freedom-does-ch...

In all likelihood had it not been brutally suppressed it probably would have ended up being somewhat like norway.

[fighterpilot]

I'm more than happy to adopt the small handful of things that they got right, while rejecting all the other stuff that inevitably leads to misery, poverty, and mass death.

[pydry]

Like what other stuff? Separation of church and state? Rent remission? Postponement of commercial debt obligations? Pensions?

Or the feminist stuff maybe?

[fighterpilot]

> Like what other stuff?

Total suppression of the free-press and banning debt and interest, for example.

It only lasted for a few months so it's hard to say how far it would've descended into nightmare, but we have a long, long history of miserable socialist states with lofty initial ideals that survived beyond their honeymoon period for the purposes of that analysis.