Yes. Although the some people would disagree. I think if every time you try something it doesn't work and then people justify that by saying, "you didn't do it right", it probably tells you more about the quality of the idea than the abilities of the implementors.

Here are some of the things communists advocate for:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.

Most communist countries actually followed these, at least at the start. (There are some countries, particularly in Africa, that claimed to be communist to get aid from the USSR, but didn't actually implement communism). The problem in practice is that this is liable to be taken over by totalitarians, as you noted.