[GSlob]

"The single worst idea in human history? I vote...communism. "
Communism is not an idea [has never been], but a way of life. Some think that it is instinctive, like, for example, reflexive tendency to cover one's derriere when in trouble [be it Chernobyl, "Kursk" sub, Chinese chemical plant explosion, WJC's "I did not have sex with that woman" or whatever else].

[r9etb]

Communism is not an idea [has never been], but a way of life.

Actually, you've got that exactly backwards. It is an idea that -- outside of very small groups, anyway -- cannot be translated into a way of life.