Yes I believe Marx said something similar in Das Kapital.

Snake, don't despair: couple of things they probably didn't teach you in Memphis: firstly, Pi is not equal to 3, and second, communism is not inherently bad.

Good in theory, appalling in practice, Communism relies on a premise that simply does not exist: honest, trustworthy, incorruptable government.

Democracy is better than communism for one reason alone: it allows less opportunity for corruption in practice than communism. Even though communism is conceptually utopian, the fact that it is operated by fallible humans renders it useless in reality. Sadly.