I cant get my head around it either mate.
Which one are you thinking about?
Real Communism,? The hippy version of living freely in a commune and swapping labour for food or the socialist movement and whats the attraction there?

I recon theres a bit of an attraction for the basic anti estabilshmentarians (a bit like Ned Kelly folk hero worship or the local biker chapter style of freedom). Probably an attraction for the anarchists and one for the free loving hippies too they all view it like an easier spring board to their higher ideals.

I recon the hippies are a joke, they smoke it up and have lost the plot, as there cannot be an equal state of loving existence when the production of all they will end up desiring is not grown for free, like their eventual health care and age care which they will leave their communes for eventually, and seek repairs at others expense.

You cannot have free state of being without free markets. Even the strictest communist regimes had their leaders and their picking orders from the top down and they sat back smoking the best cigars eating well and living rich lifestyles of the evenings.

Then they went out in the day and yell out fantastic sounding ideals at the men and women who still toiled in the mud and supplied the basics to make the intricate things they would never get to see or use themselves.

Fuckwits.