I have never seen it functioning outside of theory and doubt that it can. I like social democracy with a lot of regulation.

I don't like the atheist aspect of it. I also like owning things.

A communist society never existed. The USSR, China,... they are NOT communist. The closest thing to a communist society is the Star Trek era (TNG). I guess it's nice to live in such a society.

There are things that you shouldn't be able to "own" as private property. We basically all agree that our fellow humans are on that list, but whether anything else is on that list is what outlines the spectrum from Capitalism to Communism. I do know that isn't technically definitionally correct, but the simple question "What things on earth should humans not be able to privately own and profit from?" is a pretty good proxy for knowing where the person you are talking to lies on that spectrum.

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.

Maybe we shouldn't have any -isms as totalitarian systems.

Some things should be communistic. Healthcare, infrastructure, basic needs.

Some things should be democratic: Municipality planning, international policies

Some things should have full personal liberty: Arts, religion, relationships.

A lot of these comments are the classical “it works only on paper” bullshit or the “it always fails” schtick as if it has been tried in a void and not with constant assault from capitalist superpowers and the oligarchs that control those countries. Or what the countries looked like before revolution. Many cases of increased life expectancy, quality of life increases, and lowered infant mortality rates after communist or socialist regimes are installed. Even with capitalists and the countries they control doing literally everything they can to destroy the lives of the people within these countries to fit a narrative. Many of you are way oversimplifying things with preloaded phrases straight out of McCarthyism and it’s really depressing.

I know it works. It has gotten us this far and will keep us going farther.

It’s a fairytale believed by children who don’t want to grow up only to have to make decisions for themselves.

There's a lot of propaganda.

Irrelevant. Would cause tonns of needless deaths if there would be another attempt to implement it.

No political ideology would be able to radially change things for better as human beings peaked on their capabilities. Further progress is impossible without some sort of technological breakthrough, and a political system that would resolve around it.