So let's pick it apart, verse by verse...
Quote:
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
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So he's shooting down religion...that's one of the tenets of Communism, so...this verse gets a "yes".
Quote:
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
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Ditto on this one, sprinkled with some other altruistic thoughts.
Quote:
CHORUS:
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
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Sure, if you wanted to stretch, this could be a call for comradeship....but I find that to be a bit of a stretch.
Quote:
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
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I'd classify this one as a Yes, again, as the absence/abolition of personal possessions is one of the basic tenets of Communism. The "sharing all the world" could again be put into that class....
So although yeah, the song definitely tries to get the listener to envision a Communistic utopia, I prefer to think of it as just a beautiful tune full of pie-in-the-sky ideas that will/would never work!