Communist Republic in the future?

To most people, Communism is tantamount to dictatorship. Well, partly because of the stupidity of the Soviet Union and socialist countries and partly because its pejorative use has become so colloquial, Communism has always been synonymous to repression. Communism, comes from the word "community', so it most nearly means more involvement of the community or a philosophy that protects community above all, and ensures a society driven by the community. Ironically democracy something similar. So just like history has had capitalistic dictatorships ( most notably Nazi Germany), it is not out of scope to envision a country that is ruled by a communist republic. And although the two words might seem like a oxymoron a communist republic is possible not just in grammar but also in the real world. While it would take both a revolutionary thinker like Marx and a risk-taking country to forgo some of its freedom-loving principles of efficiency and productivity to ensure equality. The road for such a country will be abound with difficulties but if it can overcome these, it can redefine or should set right the defination of communism.