No. My limited experience with the hard left at university is that those who call themselves communists today typically mean, "I'm against bad things like explo

No. My limited experience with the hard left at university is that those who call themselves communists today typically mean, "I'm against bad things like exploitation, I am for the weak against the strong, I am on the side of good. There are simple solutions to our problems." This can be summed up in Marx's axiomatic statement, "to each as he needs; from each as he can." It would have likely have been more accurate to say, "in the language of Marx skills are not capital." It would probably be more accurate for my comment to have been, "if you don't have the propensity to call yourself a communist you probably don't worry about whether or not skills are capital." This is because for me the common feature amongst communists (in a free society) is their belief in simple solutions, and unwillingness to engage with their unintended side effects.