The Dystopian Utopia

 It seems like every few years people try to make some form of Utopia. Some of these are pretty small scale, while others impact entire nations. I think probably the most famous form of a Utopia is the communist society. Not the ones we see today, but just the general idea of communism. A society where everyone gets what they need, equal pay for all, etc. In concept it sounds pretty nice. But think about all of the major communist states from the past century. Every time communism is implemented, the nation becomes this terrible dictatorship performing tons of human rights violations, until it eventually collapses after a few decades. So why is it that whenever people try to pursue a communist utopia, it ends up becoming a dystopia. My best guess is that it is because oftentimes people are forced into the utopia. There is a group who has the idea for the utopia and then does something to put it into place, but with these large scale utopias not everyone involved is going to be interested. So then the average person is then forced to follow these new sets of rules which are completely untested. So when these untested rules inevitably have a few kinks, they dont have the zeal to more past those kinks and keep working to form a utopia. They protest, and then the people in charge of the "utopia" try to force them to obey "for their own good". The people resent this, and protest more which just starts the cycle all over again until everyones freedoms are severely limited in the name of forming a utopia. But by this point, everyone has become disillusioned with the idea of the utopia and can only focus on trying to keep everyone in line. And by this point, their utopian society has become a dystopia.