They know it. It’s just that they want 100% communism, where all the means of production, and all property is in the hands of the collectivity. You don’t work for yourself. You work for the government which pays you what it wants to.
The USA is rapidly moving towards that. Even though it has failed everywhere, the democrat party wants it here.
It turns out that this Reuters reporter was once a reporter for People’s Daily World, a communist publication. The blog has been updated to reflect this.
In my opinion, we are already there. Take an inventory of all the people you know. How many work directly for the government, how many work for a company that relies on the government (contracts, grants, etc) for its income? How many don’t rely on the government at all? I have a conservative family, and have mostly conservative friends. I counted TWO out of TEN families in that group that do not rely on the government, and those two just retired.