Communism is political, and material. Even if it be unfeasible or unrealistic it isn't a religion. It deals with power, and specifically power distribution over the economy. If there is a path to communism it is certainly not the path of being the change we wish to see in the world -- that's the sort of thing people in charge would say, to get you to pursue some personal project or spiritual journey rather than pursuing power, which for people without it basically comes from the numbers of people who can unite together in common cause -- hence why I've emphasized throughout that it's the relationships with the people you know that matter, rather than some idea, or a particular history.

In general that's a lesson I've noticed could be taught more -- communist or otherwise, politics doesn't begin with the party, the idea, the nation -- it begins with the people around you. It's an important perspective that's often lost in thinking about politics in theory, and is especially lost in the representative systems we have in place now where so much is done by appealing to an expert or an authority.

It's only by actively organizing that the ideas even begin to make sense as anything other than a philosophical exercise.