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I've always liked the concept of true communism. But I acknowledge that a shift in the near future would not work.
The key question is whether people must be motivated by material incentive. I do not believe that such motivation is intrinsic to people on birth -- I believe it is culturally learned. But the fact of the matter is almost everyone operates under this form of motivation, and it is a belief system that is incompatible with true communism.
So we must learn a new way of thinking about people and property before we can make the shift from capitalism. I don't see how this could be achieved practically. Materialism is too culturally ingrained to change itself. Change would have to come from external events.
For instance, if one day capitalism were to lead to 10 or 100 people controlling nearly all of the wealth and everyone else out of work or getting pennies per hour for menial labor, I could see people rethinking what capitalism does for them. But the majority of people are satisfied with capitalism (whether or not it is really the best system for them) and so absent some absurd concentration of economic power it's not going to happen.
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