Hand-wavy conflation of communism-as-economic-system and communism-as-government to describe brutal totalitarian states that happen to have a communist economic

Hand-wavy conflation of communism-as-economic-system and communism-as-government to describe brutal totalitarian states that happen to have a communist economic system is exactly what I'm talking about. It's an easy thing to do, because >Communism is both a form of government and an economic system (although there is variance in the form of the economic aspect of it) My example of calling some randomly selected totalitarian dictatorship "capitalist" isn't interesting or informative because it's clearly referencing the economic system, rather than making the implicit claim that it's also the government form, as does describing the regime as "communist".