Sheldon,
The argument that "no communist regime has ever claimed to actually *be* communist" is already discussed in the Wikipedia article, and is IMHO opinion an example of exactly the sort of "disinformation" your other wiki is supposedly dedicated to exposing.
Instead of trying to run verbal rings around LittleDan, why not take a moment to consider what he *meant*?
Which was, apparently:
* putting communist ideas into effect by creating what pro-Marxists might call "building socialism" in a country.
The fact that these "socialist" experiments collapsed in the former Soviet bloc would seem to support the POV that communism never works in practice.
Anyway, the question is still whether:
* the Wikipedia ought to assert the fact that communism doesn't work, or * the Wikipedia ought to REPORT that various observers have concluded that communism doesn't work
My understanding of Jimbo's NPOV policy is that we should not assert communism's unworkableness as fact but rather report that observers say it doesn't work.
Uncle Ed