Absolutely. Apparently the problem is that True Communism has never been tried. The definition of which is communism that succeeds.
I work with a former soviet union army officer (mid-level), who repeats the “never been tried” line in all seriousness. I tried to talk to him about Stalin once and he said, in all seriousness, “that wasn’t communism, that was Stalinism. If Stalin had actually been a communist, things would have been a lot better.”