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It's very telling the lack of education by many commenters. For one communism is not something you can do in one country. It is definitionally a global shift into a classless, moneyless, stateless society (I am simplifying here but this is the basics) A "communist country" is an oxymoron - it doesn't mean anything. We have socialist nations run by Communists and communist parties. In fact if you look up the definition of a "communist country" it's right in the description "is a form of government that combines the state leadership of a communist party, Marxist–Leninist political philosophy, and an official commitment to the construction of a communist society." Which is to say a socialist country led by communists with designs to bring about communism to the planet. I believe we don't have communism until every single person on the planet is emancipated.
Communism is the most noble of aspirations but we have a while before we will realize it. Most of the things communists espouse that those to the right demonize as impossible are, in fact, things that are largely enormously successful in already existing socialist nations with the primary reason for their failures being constraints imposed by capitalists nations worldwide.
Socialism is inevitable. The contradictions of capitalism increase every day and the average person is increasingly aware of how little the system is designed to care for them. It is only a matter of time before enough of the masses are organized and the power dynamics shift permanently.