User blog comment:Commissar. Dmitri/Communism Explained/@comment-4559524-20110422012340/@comment-4058875-20110716003232

Contrary to popular belief, there is no country with true communism.

North Korea's Juce ideology is merely Korean Stalinism. China's Maoism is Stalinism + Populism. PolPotism is Stalinism + Nazism (as crazy and contradictory as that sounds). Cuba's Fidelism is one of the "purest" forms of Marxism put in practice (that doesn't mean it's not flawed), but it couldn't progress from a dictatorship. If a "red" country is in crap it doesn't mean that a) Communism is bad and b) it was a communist state in the first place. Just because the theories put in practice did not work in the country doesn't mean Communism doesn't work. As a prime example we have North Korea: with Stalinism it is said that Communism can deal with Capitalism at the same time instead of trying to exterminate it. As a result, the DPRK is really isolated and it's a shithole, contrary to what Marx said, since both Socialism and Communism are internationalist ideologies by nature. The same can be brought to Cuba, however, the thing is reversed, since North Korea voluntarily isolated itself, while in Cuba, the rest of the world isolated it. The ideology of "Real Socialism" is not Communism, but what it's been described by many as a "degenerated monster painted in red". The only other country that comes close to being a "real" Communist state was the U.S.S.R. under Lenin. So, long story short, no, there is no true communist country.