I'm willing to believe the possibility that Communism could work, but I have one question

There is none. Whenever communism fails it's always dismissed as not a true Scotsman.

The French Revolution, which again didn't have a road map of how to do it successfully and ended up putting Napoleon in charge as emperor.

Which does not change the influence the enlightenment thinkers had on them.

Communism is in becoming in the sense that there is no clear cut way to "doing" communism. What I could recommend you would be utopian works like the one that gets posted around by Cockshott, of which there is one thread up right now. But communists must over all consider the realities and adapt their theories to it, not pretend one text applies universally.

What you're describing is Utopianism, something Marxism explicitly rejects. Marxism seeks to be the real movement that abolishes the current order of things, not a state of affairs to be established.

lol is this a joke?

i'm assuming that you mean anarchy as in chaos, because communism is inherently anarchist. You prevent it preferential to not lose your shit, like any society. plenty of resources and well-functioning democracy are at the core of this

*by making it preferential not to lose your shit. whoops

nigga if we had an instruction manual we would have done it right by now

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So, you're repeating what this user said: That Communism is an anarchistic society.

Then, wouldn't the best way to achieve a Communist society would be through peaceful and willing measures? After all, it worked for Liberia (Until the coup in the 80's). They were able to willing reform their country back in the 1820's through peaceful measures, and it turned out swimmingly for them. Why couldn't the same work for Communism?

No.

The state isn't immediately abolished, it withers away once the last remnants of bourgeois society have been destroyed, since the function of the state is the enforcement of class society.

Immediately, we need the state to assert the dominance of the proletarian class and secure the fruits of the revolution.