[Bayou]

I dont beleive that communism if reached will mean utopia.
Yes I too try to downplay communism when I discuss it, hell I couldnt even mention socialism when talking about the anti-american sentiment fillinf southamerica right now(all the governments being socialist).
I can barely fathom what might have been if Trotsky had succeeded Lenin.
The good name of communism died with Stalin.
Humanitarian socialism sounds right to me.
Though the simplist expression of communism is "democratising industry".
Something that has never been achieved in any nation (truly thanks to the buergoise and the military power mongers).