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Actually real Communism HAS been tried.
Plymouth Plantation nearly ended in disaster owing to the inefficiencies of communal ownership, which was finally ended by the second governor of the colony, William Bradford.
The Israeli Kibbutzim are often cited as models of successful communitarian and socialist living, but the strict communist adherence to no private property has not survived the twin challenges of economic crisis and economic success.
The problem with Communism is that it insists on treating people as groups rather than as people. Communism as a philosophy entails the denial of the atomic unit of identity, the individual person, in favor of the group. This, of course, is simply antithetical to how humans actually exist in the world.
The rebuke to Communism was written 3,000 years ago, in the closing passage of Judges (v 21:25): "In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes."
When one realizes that first and foremost we are made (and called) to be accountable to God above all else, no philosophical space remains for Communism to exist.