Well, of course it’s not entirely all gone, though it should be.  The following is from a book review of The Red Flag by David Priestland published in the Financial Times:

So have we written off communism too soon?

That is a question David Priestland puts in the introduction to his hefty new history of communism, The Red Flag. But it will never be quite the same again, he admits: “Communism will not return as a powerful movement in its old form, but now globalised capitalism is in crisis, it is no longer inconceivable that at least some of the autarkic, populist and illiberal features of the old communist world will resurface.”