You quite correctly typed the word communism with a lowercase c, and not a capital one. I like the idea of sharing what I have with my family members, and very close friends. In that respect, I could, ideologically speaking, be considered a communist, but only up to that point. I have no intention of sharing what is mine with people I dont know, so after a certain point, I am no longer communist.

My philosophy is that unbridled Capitalism, with a large C, is what works if allowed to exist, but governments manage to screw that up by intervening in markets. Within a capitalist system, if some want to share their wealth with others, they have every right to do that, and they are communistic to the extent that they wish to share what is theirs.

However, my whole point is that, while communism as an ideology might be fine and dandy, the whole concept breaks down when applied on a large scale because many do not want to share what they have with others. There are many reasons. Some are just greedy. Others dont want to work hard to make a living for someone else who is lazy. And some others want nothing to do with Communism for ideological reasons. However, whatever the reason is, once a government attempts to force Communism on its citizens, especially those who dont want it, that government is no longer Communist, but a police state. Add to the fact that government is merged with corporate power under such a system, and we have the classical definition of Fascism. Name one nation where Communism has truly worked. Just one. You cant, because none exists. Yet you have Communist parties in many nations, including America, whose members are naive enough to think that, once they take power, they will be running a Communist nation. They couldnt be more wrong. How would they enforce such a government without committing actions which run contrary to the concept of communism itself?

Communist communities? Perhaps. A nation based on communism? no longer communist, but Fascist.