Disagree. As a child of the Cold War, we used to make the distinction between communism "with small c" and Communism with "a big C". While---after 30 years---I've forgotten which is which, the point is that there was a difference between Communism in the ABSTRACT....and Communism in the real world. Communism in the ABSTRACT...has never been achieved....and it never will until you EVOLVE a better class of human being. One that doesn't act like a (as a colleague of mine like to say) "a scared little monkey". Communism in the abstract is a BENEVOLENT dictatorship by the working class over society, where they control all economic activity. A dictatorship where everyone works in an ALTRUISTIC way for the benefit of the Society as whole. The problem is that NO REAL group of human beings are that benevolent, and that altruistic OUTSIDE OF A MONASTERY OR CONVENT. Therefore Communism is an UNWORKABLE political and economic ideology UNLESS you are dealing with a society of saints. So what happens when you try to apply in the REAL WORLD, is that you get some variant of Stalinism. Which is just your garden-variety totalitarian state...where the state controls all the wealth and all the economic activity. So instead of a society dominated by the "economic and intellectual elite" (the bourgeois), you get a society dominated by an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy. (Oligarchy). There is also no altruism from the people. People aren't rewarded for the efforts, and aren't willing to work hard for altruistic motives. So everyone does the bare MINIMUM that they can get away with doing....so the economic engine of the country grind to a halt. So, other than the bureaucratic elite, pretty much everyone else lives in some form of poverty. Which is why North Korea (every few years) has to threaten to start WWIII in order to blackmail the rest of the world into giving it the food it needs to keep its people from starving.