https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/51mnhy/google_fiber_wins_faster_access_to_utility_poles/d7dv5o1

R1: As Marx famously put it, "I'd quite like a dictatorship of the proletariat and abolition of private property, but only in healthcare, utility, public transport, etc, the free market can take care of the rest".

Communism entails the ownership of the means of production by the community in a classless and moneyless society, not the Reddit definition of "the government owns it therefore communism".

The efficacy of nationalised industry is another debate, but Reddit seems to embody Bill Maher's smug assertion that "if you like libraries or the army then you're a socialist so there". The type of society that commenters are usually advocating for is a social democracy, in which capitalism is used to fund government run programs such as welfare and education, but until workers own the companies they work for we're a long shot away from actual socialism/communism.