> The 'communist' countries generally did these same things. There's a reason that Communists that don't follow Leninism or its derivatives tend to view the co

> The 'communist' countries generally did these same things. There's a reason that Communists that don't follow Leninism or its derivatives tend to view the countries that call themselves “Communist” (all of which follow Leninism or one of its derivatives) as only rhetorically socialist in system and substantively state capitalist at best, as they are run by a narrow and self-perpetuating elites exploiting the working class through, among other means, control of the non-financial means of production.