I'm a democratic communist. I don't like calling myself a Marxist, Leninist, etc. for the same reason physicists don't call themselves Newtonists or Einsteinians, and for the same reason that biologists dislike others calling them Darwinists. Marx was a genius, but not a prophet.
Democracy entails that the people are the state. Communism entails that the workers as a class own the means of production. The rest is commentary.
Democracy entails that the people are the state. Communism entails that the workers as a class own the means of production. The rest is commentary.