Are you anticommunist/anti-Marxist?

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No, I am pro-communist/pro-Marxist, because I favor the emancipation of mankind from the shackles of capitalist exploitation, religious dogma, etc, etc.

To those of you who say communism is dead and buried, I'd point you to the five states which are ruled by communist parties and which remain alive and well in the 21st Century, in spite of their bureaucratic deformations. One of those is the People's Republic of China, which in spite of market reforms still has its core industries under state ownership and utilizes economic planning to drive growth. It has performed fairly spectacularly over the past few decades and poses enough of a threat to the bourgeois powers that they've begun to engage in strategies to isolate it (Pivot to Asia, Transpacific Partnership, etc., etc.).

Likewise, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Republic of Cuba, The Democratic Republic of Laos, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam all still stand today as testaments to the superiority of planned economies compared to the anarchy of the capitalist market system. In these countries, medical care, housing, and education are guaranteed and not dependent upon who your parents were, where you hail from, or what accent you speak with. In short, these countries have done what the capitalist system will never do, i.e. create a fully functioning welfare state that won't be rolled back the next time a right-wing (or 'left-wing' social democratic/eurocommunist) party is elected to government.

These countries suffer from bureaucratic deformities and unfortunately are run by Stalinist bureaucracies that deny their populations the right to fully participate in the planning of production and likewise have defects in that they promote stupid, parochial nationalisms as opposed to internationalist politics. But even so, they represent a massive advance compared to capitalist 'democracies' where the only freedom you are guaranteed is the 'freedom' to be a slave to some nonworking parasite.

Hopefully in the 21st Century we'll see political revolution in the states where capitalism has already been overthrown and the subsequent introduction of real workers' democracy there. And likewise, hopefully we'll also see new October Revolutions in the places where capitalism has yet to be overthrown.

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Likewise, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... stands today as testament to the superiority of planned economies compared to the anarchy of the capitalist market system.

What. The. Fuck

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Have you ever wondered why people want to leave those countries you mentioned?

No. I understand perfectly clear why people would want to escape the thought-policing, bureaucratic despotism of countries like China, the DPRK, Laos, Vietnam, and Cuba. None of those legitimate reasons have often anything to do with wanting to escape from guaranteed medical care, housing, education, etc. Those who flee from those for the 'freedom' of the capitalist market aren't too bright as is.