The Oneida Community predated communism, in its Marxist–Leninist interpretations, by a good 50 years. The concept of classless societies and communal living extend back at least to the time of Plato in ancient Greece.  Karl Mark claimed it was practiced by the first humans.  And the indigenous people of the New World, and the first European settlers, had social and economic structures more like communism than the capitalism that we see here today.

The current trend in academia is to forgo the fairy tails, Limbaugh should follow suit.