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I can agree with such take though one must note that such "nobility" could also be ascribed to nazis or khmers who too believed that their actions will result in a better world.

Sure, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. We all see ourselves as noble, or fighting for the right cause, or what-have-you. Radical capitalists and Leninists both saw themselves in that light, at first. Nazis, Greens, CCP, and so on, every party sees their mission as "noble". That doesn't mean it is, obviously.

My point is just that radical capitalism and Marxism/Leninism both forgot a fact of basic human nature ... a fact which made both systems unrealistic.

It can't be really said that communism failed because of greed as it was never built nor there was real conception of what should be done to build it and how it would look in precise terms. Something that is just vague dream or perhaps messianic promise can't really fail because there is no possibility of achieving it in the first place.

Right, but the fact that it fell to its death trying to crawl out of the cradle speaks to my point. Even though no perfect Communism was ever attained, those trying to bring it about had their plans and doctrine fall afoul of human greed all the same. And I think greed was a big part.