I agree with that. My only question with regards to everyone having equality economically and such is I don't see where pride in your work and wanting to improve fits into that, career wise.
I think people will always find any reason to become focused on others in regards to why they DON'T succeed - or why, if not wanting to succeed, that others need to be on their level. You can have pride in your work regardless - and people who had equality economically often realized that their work was still valuable. They worked on behalf of the unit and the collective - and took their work very seriously.
Granted, Anarchist communism (also known as anarcho-communism or libertarian communism ) advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wages and private property (while retaining respect for personal property). But Communism as envisioned originally by Marx was not for that.
Private property/ability to advance with it was never removed from communism - for all Communism is concerned about, it to prevent an individual or group of individuals (usually called the ‘bourgeois’ at the time, while nowadays you would best call them the ‘corporatist’
from deriving power over others from their property. Essentially, one could still own a car or a house since this sort of property is not touched at all. However, one could not onger own the factory or the bank that produces or finances the production of these products. According to Communism this sort of property, which it calls bourgeois property, needs to be in ‘public hands’.
There were many who did well with the mindset that communism advocated.
Many ended up doing very well - in practical example, even in Africa where Russia spread communism with the colonies it had set up, communism was able to succeed well with the system due to how t
hey had a mindset of communalism in place (i.e. "It's about the village" ) rather than an individualistic perspective. There wasn't a lack of incentive to work if knowing that you owned a field and yet were expected to take care of others on it for the village....nor was the mindset "Why work?" that having the same pay to actually feed yourself/family as another
IMHO, It's all about mindset.
Whenever the focus is on someone else being the reason for your lack of success (or your frustration), there will always be a lot of issues. It's very similar to the way people will choose to be petty trivial about interpersonal issues within their sphere of influence (i.e. complaining about others making their time "miserable" - be it at work or at home, even online - because they chose to carry bitterness/have a grudge on disagreements, being nasty when it may suit them with co-workers and then claiming others saying it was needless were "overstepping bounds" in their own imaginations, making things unpleasant environment by the inability to stop trying to compete with workers or mock them when working rather than actually value where others have strengths where they don't, hypocrisy or "crabs in a barrel" mindset with trying to hinder anyone they disagree with from actually living their life and doing whatever possible to pull others back in where they are, etc.).
Not having incentive to work within communism at certain points (because of the economic issue of equality) is a reflection of the same reality of not having incentive to work within systems where you can advance but feel frustrated because you have equity - and don't want to help all to be equal or sustainable....or at least, not so much equal with you that you are held to the same standards of evaluation as others. If another succeeds with less amount of resources as you, part of their success is connected to the attitude they had - of not comparing themselves to others in saying "I wish I had as much as they did." Likewise, if others did well with the property they had when it is equal to others and others don't value it, ti all goes back to attitude - there was an active choosing to be negative rather than learn to value what you already have.
It's very similar to the spiritual when it comes to all being responsible for what they do with the good things (be it personal or public - government wise) that have been given to them since God is present globally. And with him there's always room to succeed. As one early believer in the Church said best:
"God created the sun and the eye. Man is free to receive the sun's light or not. The same is true here. God sends the light of knowledge like rays to all, but He also gave us faith like an eye. The one who wants to receive knowledge through faith, keeps it by his works, and so God gives him more willingness, knowledge, and power."
~Saint Peter the Damascene