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Which countries have truly been communist?
The Soviet Union
Cuba
None of the above
North Korea
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None of the above.
By the standard Marxist definition, "communism" is a classless, stateless society with common ownership of the means of production and distribution "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." The Soviet Union, Cuba, and North Korea all nationalized property and called themselves socialist/communist, but they retained states, party rule, privileges for a ruling elite, coercive institutions and market/redistributive constraints — not the classless, stateless communist end-state. Scholars therefore usually describe them as state-socialist or Marxist–Leninist regimes rather than instances of true communism.
By the standard Marxist definition, "communism" is a classless, stateless society with common ownership of the means of production and distribution "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." The Soviet Union, Cuba, and North Korea all nationalized property and called themselves socialist/communist, but they retained states, party rule, privileges for a ruling elite, coercive institutions and market/redistributive constraints — not the classless, stateless communist end-state. Scholars therefore usually describe them as state-socialist or Marxist–Leninist regimes rather than instances of true communism.
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