What is your opinion about Communism?

[Rev. Rye]

Are you a communist? What are you opinions about communism?

Note: I mean the Marxist-Leninist ideology to be more specific.

Marxist-Leninism is a deeply unworkable system if all the many states who've tried it are any indication. I suppose it can work if your ideology is flexible enough that you're willing to change your ideology to fit with changed circumstances (so the many cries of "splitter" that came about as a result of the many leaders trying to shoehorn it into their cultures should be meaningless), and hopefully if you're strong enough to not get crushed by the more authoritarian systems. These criteria are not likely to be held simultaneously in one system, let alone one that self-describes as "communist," let alone Marxist-Leninst.

Then again, I suspect most political systems aren't all that workable.