Reply #31: Americans have been inoculated against it, but it could work elsewhere if

[Lydia Leftcoast]

it didn't evolve into a tyrannical state monopoly, as the Soviet Union did, and concentrated on voluntary cooperatives and other types of businesses where the workers really do "own the means of production."

It might be interesting to see a really down and out country experiment with Marxism w/o the rigid central planning and political repression that marred Eastern European and Chinese Communism, like if Liberia or Haiti or Burma organized itself on the basis of cooperatives, family farms, and small businesses with a lot of political freedom.