Is workable Communism really impossible?

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Marx isn't a more conservative economist. He's just closer to classical economics in some of his assumptions, but he's a radical economist by most metrics. I mean, Marxism isn't just classical economics plus left-wing ideology, but rather it is more of it's own sub-branch, something Friedman really does not have. Even Mises didn't go so far in his context. (And both Mises and Friedman lived in a context where the LTV was often considered debunked, making the conservative point odd, because then we'd have to say that the closest historical heir will be the more conservative figure)

There are billions of functioning communist communities all over the planet right now. They're called families.

The question is a matter of scale.

Extended families less so; the local community / tribe even less so and beyond that negligibly so. The further from the atomic family the more dysfunctional and corrupt communism becomes.

Blood is thicker than ideology.

ruveyn

I think LTV was "Debunked" not because it was "wrong" but because it made Marx "right".

I put the truth value words in quotes because economics like all social "sciences" does not have the rigor to produce anything better than conjecture especially dear old Mises with his just so stories.

The idea is that if LTV holds than Marx is right so lets destroy LTV.
In the context of the cold war.

No, the problem with LTV is that it doesn't account for scarcity, while marginal value does.

The context of its creation is a little too perfect.
Although Supply and demand can be made to fit into a Marxist context.
One could argue that the marginal profit also "belongs" to the worker.