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Communism was conceived in the 19th Century. It experienced several still-births in the 20th Century. Is it possible that a successful birth might occur in the 21st Century? Could a communist nation be created through the democratic process, peacefully, rather than struggling to be born through civil warfare? After all, despite the failures of the 20th Century, communism in its true form is totally democratic.

It is based on community representation. Each small community, where all are known to each other, selects a representative to a regional committee. The regional committee members develop a knowledge and understanding of each other and select a representative to a committee representing a larger region. And so on, until you have a national council of democratically chosen representatives making decisions that should, at least in theory, benefit the whole nation.

A stabilizing and controlling influence over this process, is that any representative to a committee at ANY level, can lose their place if it is revoked by any of the committees that he or she has been promoted through, including the very first home community they are representing. Every member of the national or supreme committee must be continually endorsed by every committee below it, including the first, his or her local community.

Is it, however, likely that communism could make inroads and become a possible political option for nations of the 21st Century? It certainly has a bad reputation, at least in the developed world, that would hinder its success; but is that reputation deserved? The reputation is, after all, based on negative political spin in developed capitalist nations targeted at totalitarian nations that proclaimed or still proclaim themselves communist. Such spin has consistently failed to point out that the "communist" nations it has been targeted against fail in the most part to uphold communist ideology. That they are, in fact, further from communism than the capitalist nations decrying them.

Communist ideology triggered the October Revolution of 1917 in Imperial Russia, three years into the Great War, better known to us as World War I since the later World War II. While the Red Army successfully defeated the White armies, that were supported by foreign aid, in the subsequent conflict of several years, doing so necessitated subjugating communist ideology under a totalitarian command structure that failed to release its dominance and control once they had achieved victory.

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