There's always pragmatism though - it's possible to say that your end state involves no workers being alienated from their labour, but to allow it for some larg

There's always pragmatism though - it's possible to say that your end state involves no workers being alienated from their labour, but to allow it for some large number of years on the basis that it will help you get to a good version of the endstate quicker. A state that governs with a communist endstate in mind might still be regarded as communist, even if they use capitalist policies to get there.