Can Communism work?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Communism as the ideological construction we know. No that couldn't exist. Could communism have been made workable? Yes quite likely and to some extent it was made workable in the short and medium term by USSR, through not in the long term.

So a better question would be; what policies could USSR have implemented which would have made them a long term viable state? And would such a state be truly communist?

Doesn't that term automatically exclude something from being communist?