American vs. European Communists: Is there an ideological divide? In my travels through the Interwebs and through the advanced placement program, I've made a personal distinction between those who claim the general label "Communist." Communism will not work en masse in the United States as long as the Constitution enforces single member districts, but it as quite a shot at working in Europe, where proportional voting does, in fact, work.

So, my question is this: How have the experiences of communists divided the ideology of the men and women across the pond in the most general of ways? Is there a tendency for one side to be more dogmatic (in my experience, there has been: Europeans are less reasonable) and does one side experience more ideological freedom/dispute?