Reply #16: the term always been praciticed emplies weve tried it out alot

[K-W]

that is simply a false statement. Communism has never actually been tried. People with communist ideals have taken over unstable countries. And, like almost anyone who has ever taken over an unstable country, they proceeded to centralize power, NOT because that was part of the communist theory, but because that is the only way to retain power in an unstable country with contentious rule.

So the only countries weve had with communist ideals were the portion of those countries with massive turmoil that happened to be taken over by people who had or used communist ideals.

To say that you can make any generlizations about the overall philosophy of communism based on that is just silly.

Meanwhile communism is not just for Marx's time. The overall concept of a communist society is not constrained by geography or time. Marx's conception of how a communism could occur were constrained by economic factors mostly, but not only to his time and place.