Of course there have been communist countries. Try to disown them all you want, but anyone with half a brain knows that totalitarianism is the natural conclusion to any attempt at communism.

How else to impose equality, how else to decide what is "equal". Is communism as defined by Marx a pretty illusion, yes of course. But so is the Islamic heaven. There is nothing more dangerous than people who believe in illusions and try to make them real.

As for the rest. Ideas are worthy infinitely more than workers. Sorry, but that is why all the factory jobs are leaving this country.